This is an easy hack that took me forever to figure out. This all came about because I wanted to test out some browser computability issues within Linux. The normal easy way would be to download a LiveCD, burn it to a disc and then reboot a computer using the LiveCD. This method works fine but while I am at work I use a laptop running WindowsXP with an external keyboard, video and mouse and spend most of my time running Remote Desktop to other computers on our network. So instead of reboot my work station into Linux I’d rather just run Linux in as a Virtual Machine. Enter VMWare Player.
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I found this post at the Ubuntu forums and it worked for me:
Ok, so there are other tutorials out there for the other 43xx cards, but from my experience, none of them have worked with the specific 4318 card. This way i will explain below is the only way i have gotten my 4318 card to work with 6.06
Extract the theme to /usr/share/themes for a system-wide install or to /home/USERNAME/.themes for a single-user install. The path should read something like /usr/share/themes/THEMENAME/xfwm4/ or /home/USERNAME/.themes/THEMENAME/xfwm4/, where THEMENAME is the name of the theme.
Linux and Wireless is currently a pain in the arse. Some wireless vendors are hip to Linux and others could care less. To get around the this issue Linux hackers and some vendors have created dirvers or hacks to get Linux and wifi in the sama bed.
This page is my resource and links page for trying to get wifi working on my Gateway MX6440 laptop which has a poorly supported Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02). At some point I am going to buy either a USB Wifi, a PCMCIA Wifi Card or a miniPCI Wifi card.
Installing
Installing Fedora Core 5 on this rig was pretty easy. The only iffy area is the monitor. I first tried Generic LCD but it rendered everything skewed in 1024. I went into setup -> xconfig -> hardware and select Gateway and then ???????. I did this a few time until I got the screen to render in 1128×768 nicely.
I have spent the past month evaluating every distro I could find. From HD Installes to Live CD/DVD’s and each one of them had a quirk that drove me nuts. I have 2 machines that are mine to ruin; (I have a 3rd comp but every time I wipe the drive my wife flips out because I deleted all of her stuff AGAIN!!) one is an HP Pavilion ze4560 1.8AMD/512RAM laptop and the other is an old PII 600mhz/396RAM mini-tower clone.
Just for clarity I didn’t bother trying to get the WiFi card running on most of these distros.
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Linux distro STX LINUX looks interesting especially for my old PIII500Mhz/392RAM box. As soon as I get home I’m going to download it and test it out.
UPDATE
Well my old P3 finally kicked the bucket this evening so I guess I won’t be testing STX on that thing!!
