Re: Broadcom

Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 10)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 5a37
00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:12.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2)
00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3)
00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4)
00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 SMBus (rev 13)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Azalia
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTra nsport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Con troller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscella neous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200 M]
05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PC I Card (rev 01)
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
08:01.0 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSP ro Host Adapter (rev 19)
08:01.1 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 01)

Any ideas?

On 7/4/07, Hans-J. Ullrich <hans.ullrich@loop.de> wrote:

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

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