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RE: Acer 5002WLMi, Debian, and a nasty wireless chip



> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Goodenough [mailto:david.goodenough@btconnect.com] 
> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 9:57 AM
> To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Acer 5002WLMi, Debian, and a nasty wireless chip
> 
> On Monday 30 January 2006 14:49, sjb wrote:
> > Hi, All -
> >
> > Love my laptop, hate my wireless (Broadcom 4318), and am
> > wondering if anyone has/had:
> >
> > a) any good response with the Broadcom43xx driver in 
> development w/ the
> > above system &/or the above wireless card.
> >
> > b) any knowledge/experience of an acpi/ acer_acpi patch for 
> the 2.6.15
> > kernel? I've got the source for the driver itself, but it 
> doesn't like
> > to install.
> >
> > c) any new ideas for getting the 4318 to work under 
> ndiswrapper, *other*
> > than the usual ones involving ndiswrapper -i, for 
> conffile...do, and the
> > like?
> >
> > thanks for any hints, clues tips or tricks.
> >
> > Steph
> Although it is for a slightly different Acer one thing I 
> found was that I 
> could enable the wireless card (a mini-PCI one) by interrupting pin 13
> on the edge connector.  I did this with a permanent marker pen.  
> Then the card was visible to lspci and I could point a driver 
> at it.  That
> way I did not need the acer_hk driver to enable the wireless card.
> 
> David
> 
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Cool!
How the heck did you know to do THAT!?


-C



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