BCM4306 Questions

[Randy Cushman <rcushman_linux@roadrunner.com>]

Recently I retrofitted my older HP laptop with a "Broadcom 802.11b/g 
WLAN" miniPCI adapter.  The adapter works well with Windows XP.  Now I 
would like to be able to use the adapter with Linux.

Question:  Is there any hope of using this adapter with a native driver, 
or should I use ndiswrapper?  Requirement:  I want to be able to connect 
to networks using WPA-PSK.

Complication:  Neither bcm43xx-fwcutter nor b43-fwcutter recognizes the 
latest driver I found at HP.  I figure it would be best for me to use 
this firmware because this is the only driver that I have found to be 
stable.

Question:  Could someone instruct a mere applications software engineer 
on how to determine the values to insert into fwcutter_list.h to support 
this driver (or provide documentation to this effect)?

Details:
- BCM-4306 -based adapter.  Vendor 14E4, Device 4320, Subsys 12F8103C, 
Rev 03
- HP driver SP36684.EXE, v4.150.29.0 (7/11/2007) (BCMWL5.SYS)
- unstable driver tried: v4.100.15.5
- openSUSE 10.3 installed bcm43xx-fwcutter and loaded modules bcm43xx 
and ieee80211_softmac

Randy Cushman