having trouble with network card

[hnugz]

I have an integrated wireless card in my laptop which under windows is listed as IEEE 802.11g Network Adapter.  Since I don't know anything else about this card how can I get drivers for it?

[Faust]

802.11g is a spec, not a card name.  There will probably be a generic Linux driver for it, but I'm not sure.  But again "802.11g" is like "56k" it doesn't describe the actual card, just it's class.  Have you tried looking in the device manager?

[raptor]

*companies should write drivers for "tux" i think the penguin and his family( open-source community) would say thankyou*

[hnugz]

Well after some digging I found out that it's a broadcom nic.  Problems is after searching for the drivers for the specific card it appears that there are no drivers for it.  Some kinda legal thing apparently.

[Copperhead]

I did a quick search, and I found that someone has apparently released some drivers:

http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/bcm5700/

Further reading lead to the conclusion that both 3com and HP, have Linux drivers availible on their sites:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=broadcom+nic+linux

All of these might require some kernel recompilation, however.

Long live Google