will wireless work? dv2000z

i use linux as much as i use windows and i was wondering if anyone knows what brand is the included wireless card on the dv2000z or if it works in linux
i know the dv2000t works since there are drivers for the intel card but if i buy the dv2000t i won't get 64bit and the nvidia card wich i like better than the intel one...
anyone has received this laptop yet and tried linux?
thanks in advance

 

I should get my V3000z by Monday. If they include Broadcom based Wifi's then the chances of having issues are definately higher. I will try out Ubuntu 6.06 and check the wireless ability over the next week.

I have seen that even some of the newer Intel based 39xx series wifi's had their share of compatibility woes. But in most cases the Broadcom card can be made to work.

 

thanks miner, i'm looking forward to see you review

 

if there is no native linux driver, you can check out this program called ndis wrapper(i think that's what it is; similar to linuxtant thing, but this is the freeo pen source ver... only way i got my netgear pcmcia card to work, but it's good stuff!!!)... all u do is install the program (htey have a good wiki, i'm used to gentoo linux so i don't know whot things work on other systems cause gentoo has some nice stuff haha) and then get the windows drivers, and it will load thoose drivers. My netgear card then seemed to work like a native device... it's very interesting. As long as you can find out the manufactuer and get drivers you should be pretty good to go.

to downlaod the program just plug ur laptop in somewhere... hope this helps

 

I got my dv2000z with the intergrated wifi and bluetooth.
The wifi card is a broadcom 4310.

If you are going to run a 32-bit linux OS then ndiswrapper should work fine for you, however if you wanted to run a 64-bit OS then you will need to find 64-bit windows drivers that work with this card which I've been unable to find as of yet.

There is also a project that provides native linux support for the broadcom chipset but since this model of the card seems to be fairly new it is not yet supported. http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/?go=Home

I found a patch for the 2.6.17 kernel that allowed the kernel to see my wireless card but I could not connect to anything. I imagine this will all be fixed in the next revision or two of the kernel.

Hope that helps

 

Is the broadcom wireless card crappy or something?

 

Broadcom is clueless about Linux support, but their hardware is OK. I wish HP would pick a more enlightened wireless card supplier regardless, or just beat some sense into Broadcom.

 

heh...i guess there is no way to replace that wireless card huh. Darn.. i hear the intel pro is niice.

 

Sure, you can replace the wireless card. It's underneath one of the bottom panels; you have to remove the RAM cover to get to the screw for it, but it's clearly marked.

 

Oh. Excellent.
I hear that the Intel Pro Wireless one is very nice and stable. It also seems to be what the other Laptop makers use ( IE Dell).

 

Except that HP has a whitelist in their BIOS that only accepts 2-3 different models of miniPCI WiFI cards. Someone posted a BIOS patch process to get around that but it's rather involved.