>On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: >Some Broadcom cards not supported by b43 driver have support with >"ndiswrapper", you could check if your model is listed there :-? > >Mmmm, for this I dunno. It seems to be using Intel G45 chipset. Google a >bit to check what people is saying.
Thanks Camaleón, I'll look into that chipset a bit more. Want to avoid ndiswrapper if possible; this laptop I'm looking at is built for Linux so I'm not sure why it has a Broadcom wireless card. >On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 2:20 AM, Omar Campagne <ocampa...@gmail.com> wrote: >I have a bcm4312, "cousin" of your wireless. b43 gave me a terribly >bad performance, and ndiswrapper works fine for me, however, you need >to blacklist ssb and b43 modules at boot (not neccessary anymore?) Thanks Omar, another vote for ndiswrapper :( >On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 6:27 AM, Celejar <cele...@gmail.com> wrote: > >According to these messages, your card likely has an LP PHY: > > > http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/bcm43xx-dev/2008-June/004219.html > http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/bcm43xx-dev/2008-June/004221.html > > > >Recently, there's been a lot of work on the LP PHY, and at least some > >cards have at least some support. I don't know about yours - I'd ask > >on the b43 list (new home at infradead), if you care enough. > Interesting, thank you Celejar, I've looked at your links and will investigate more. Since I haven't bought this laptop yet, I'm going to keep searching for something as close to 100% Debian Lenny compatible out-of-the-box as possible. Mark
