Re: Broadcom

[Gnu_Raiz <Gnu-Raiz@midsouth.rr.com>]

On Wednesday 04 July 2007, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> Am Mittwoch 04 Juli 2007 schrieb Cavan Mejias:
> > Has anybody had success changing the supplied broadcom wireless card 
> > in a Dell 1501 for another brand? The driver supplied in Etch doesn't
> > work and i cant get Nidis wrapper to function yet. Thanks
>
> Which chipset ???
>
> Check with lspci.
>
> Regards
>
> Hans

When you mean supplied what exactly do you mean, a mini-pci card, or 
another card. I have had lots of success changing out the mini-pci card 
on a Dell 600M, it even has it's own antenna you just unscrew the cover 
and carefully remove the card. Of course these are all Intel based wifi 
cards, I changed out the 802.11b Intel card for a 802.11g card that would 
work better with my mimo AP.

http://www.intel.com/network/connectivity/products/wireless/prowireless_mobile.htm

Now Gnu/linux support might not be exactly what you want, but they might 
be better than a broadcom chipset. What I would do is go buy yourself a 
usb ralink card, I have one based on the rt71 chipset, not only is it 
great under Debian, it is portable.  

http://3btech.net/chrart80wius.html

I usually get good reception as the card hangs out of the usb port, for 
the price it seems to be a good deal compared to some windows only card.

Gnu_Raiz