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Re: Broadcom wireless driver



Did you try the broadcom website for a linux driver.
I have a broadcom nic bcm-5700 that driver was dropped in debian 2.6.11 kernel,
so  I downloaded the driver from  broadcom.com.
The driver was an src-rpm that I had to use alien to convert to a deb package. Was not too much of a hastle, but I'm still burnt that they/whomever, dropped
an extensivly, used network interface card like bcm-5700 -
Could at least have left support for it to a contrib dir on debian, and announced the
change where it  would  be  seen  easily.

JWM



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