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Re: Preparing to give 64 bit a shot again on Gateway laptop



lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) writes:

> On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 04:33:51PM -0700, Tannon Weber wrote:
> > I've been doing some further reading on the subject since my last
> >inquiry, and it looks like I have a Broadcomm wireless chipset. Crap.
> >Everything that I've found online so far indicates that it won't work
> >with 64 bit when trying a wrapper. Video doesn't seem to be nearly as
> >much of a problem, as ATI's support page has the Xpress X600 listed,
> >and I think that the chipset itself is theirs, but I'm still trying
> >to figure that out.
 
> I have read about some people getting broadcom to work with the x4 bit
> windows xp driver in ndiswrapper. I haven't tried it myself (My wife
> has an amd64 laptop with a broadcom, but she is running i386 for now).

It works well. I've been using ndiswrapper with 64bit windows broadcom
drivers for 6 months now... 

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