I transfered a Mini netbook that ran with ubuntu, To windows xp sp2 Where can i find the necessary drivers?

Question

It is a Broadcom Sta wireless card I had Ubuntu running on the mini Netbook, But it ran a little slow. So i decided to install a fresh windows XP. But it didn't have any wireless drivers. And the only drivers i can find are for Linux.
Please help

Answer 1

if no help on Broadcom site, hope these links can work for you instead:

http://www.drivers-updates.net/company/broadcom-drivers.html

http://www.drivers-updates.net/drivers/windows-xp-drivers.html

you can also keep asking on the following forum:

http://forums.cnet.com/

hope my answer helps.

good luck

Answer 2

"STA" is the name of the Linux driver, not the wireless chip, which is why you can only find Linux STA drivers. You probably have a Broadcom 43xx.



Go to the website of the vendor of your mini (DELL? HP?) and you can download the right driver from them.



Personally, I would be surprised if Windows ran faster than Linux on that box.

Answer 3

easily, the XP deploy disk won't know the filesystems - it in uncomplicated terms helps the closed source Microsoft filesystems. i might advise you to get Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty - it boots to laptop in 25 seconds, and with the recent ext4 filesystem i don't get any sound out of my demanding disk while it boots. an entire verify on the filesystem (ordered each thirty circumstances you mount a partition) on my 300GB music partition - it took in uncomplicated terms 10 seconds. you may merely make an area employing the Ubuntu partitioning gadget, and then deploy residing house windows. If residing house windows can't see your demanding drives, it somewhat is a fault of residing house windows - i think of you're puzzled. Ubuntu takes no section in booting to a residing house windows disk. you should apply your Ubuntu disk to format your demanding disk to fat32 or NTFS filesystem. in short, it somewhat is XP disk which has many issues - Ubuntu has no issues of its own filesystems, or residing house windows filesystems - yet easily the recent ext4 filesystem is a lot greater stepped forward than NTFS that i might under no circumstances think of going back. i discover the suitable answer is to place in XP making a 20GB putting up partition as I do it, and then make a 40GB NTFS partition which could b e accessed by ability of XP and used for backups/shared data - then deploy Ubuntu to a 20GB root partition, with something of the disk being partitioned as a /residing house partition for inner maximum stuff.

Answer 4

Why are you putting windows on it just put a fresh install of ubuntu 10.04 netbook remix on it.