Re: Broadcom

["Hans-J. Ullrich" <hans.ullrich@loop.de>]

Am Mittwoch 04 Juli 2007 schrieb Gnu_Raiz:
> 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_mob
>ile.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

No, what I mean is: What chipset has your card ? Broadcom is just the 
manufacturer. Some broacom cards are native supported by the kernel.

You have to find out, which chipset your broadcom card has.

Otherwise, I cannot help you.

regards

Hans