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Originally Posted by oldcpu
Can you not also remove many of the apps that are taking up so much space in WinXP, and then defrag afterward, significantly reducing the consumed space?
Just saying "Broadcom 802.11a/b/g WLAN" is insufficient to ensure compatibility. There is more than one broadcom.
Can you boot to a liveCD, then open a gnome-terminal / konsole in the liveCD, and type:
su -c lspci
and look for your broadcom device entry. Copy the specific part of that wlan entry here. (not the entire lspci).
Sometimes, wireless devices are treated as a usb by the laptop, in which case you my need to try:
lsusb
and if "lsusb" is not found, then first install in the liveCD (it will go to ram) "usbutils" and then try:
lsusb
and again, post the wireless info.
Its also possible your winXP gives more information than just "Broadcom 802.11a/b/g WLAN" ... i'm not a winXP user, so I can say that for certain.
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sorry, i did think that just saying broadcom xxxxxxx wouldn't be of much info, but thats all i could find.
thank you for the help and i am thinking of just jumping in the deep end later tonight or tomorrow and installing opensuse on it. i will back up all my data beforehand and if i can't get the wireless to work or any other problems, might go back to windows.
i found the sticky in the 'wireless' section of this forum about how to get hte wireless to work, so have saved that and follow that when i get opsen suse on.
i am thinking that it will work if i fully install it as opensuse 11 is the latest version and my laptop model has been out for quite a while, so it should be supported.