In need of wireless software

the software you are talking about is on the compaq web site unless you have a very old machine unless you have a PCMCIA card that you are using for wireless. To see if your broadcom wireless has the proper software driver installed, go to Start/Control Panel/System/hardware or device manager. You should see a list of all the hardware devices on your machine. Make sure there is no error symbol associated with the broadcom wireless device. Make sure it is not disabled....should be obvious. It should look just like all the other devices in terms of display.