Dutch-Lin 0 Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Hey dudes! Is broadcom support native nowadays? I want to install linux again, but I want to know if broadcom is supported natively. Also my question is, is the Intel 915GM supported properly yet? So far I have tried several distro's but none of em support lower resolutions, which I need to play some windows games. (Vice City and The Sims mostly) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dutch-Lin 0 Posted February 10, 2009 Author Share Posted February 10, 2009 well dudes I just installed it and I can tell you this..... It's not native support, but when I statup the HARDWARE DRIVERS thing in ADMINISTRATION....I can just activate the driver and after areboot, my WiFi card works perfectly! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
anyweb 490 Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 interesting, what linux distro are you using and what laptop ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dutch-Lin 0 Posted February 11, 2009 Author Share Posted February 11, 2009 I am using a HP Pavilion DV4205 and distro Ubuntu 8.10 It works flawlessly!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dungeon-Dave 293 Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 I had problems getting a Broadcom network card working under Fedora6 on an HP DC5700 (minitower). HP's forums indicated it was a TG3 card, for which I could download a module - they provided me with a link along with instructions, which were simply a matter of extracting a tarball, compiling (make/make install/etc) then dropping the compiled .SO file into the relevant directory - /usr/lib/something, I recall. Then I had to alias eth0 to "tg3" in /etc/modprobe.conf and networking worked without issue. Fedora 7 didn't have this problem, but when I checked I noticed that the tg3.so file was already in place, and aliased in modprobe.conf - so it looks like native support was included from that version. You may want to check your files/directories as mentioned above to see if they indicate native support in ubuntu. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dutch-Lin 0 Posted February 12, 2009 Author Share Posted February 12, 2009 Uhm....like I said " it works " all I had to do was goto HARDWARE DRIVERS in the SYSTEM ==> ADMINISTRATION menu, activate the driver/software and reboot. So why you come up with the stroy above.....beats me! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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