[mdlug] WiFi -Woes(?) or Broadcom is 'the' lame

[Jason]

Broadcom won't open their drivers up so we are left to the sometimes
funkiness of ndiswrapper, which I never got to work with my Broadcom
1300 on a Inspiron 1000. FWIW anyone looking at the M1700 (XPS) series
of Dell's the Intel3945 works quite well.

-Jason

On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 14:44 -0500, R. Kannan wrote:
> Rob,
> 
> I have a DELL laptop (D820 circa 2006)with wireless using boroadcom chip and it has been working fine through ndiswrapper but you may have a newer version.
> 
> Raj
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Robert Adkins <radkins at impelind.com>
> >Sent: Nov 29, 2007 9:54 AM
> >To: 'MDLUG's Main discussion list' <mdlug at mdlug.org>
> >Subject: Re: [mdlug] WiFi -Woes(?) or Broadcom is 'the' lame
> >
> >> 
> >> > From: Robert Adkins
> >> 
> >> > > From: Robert Adkins
> >> 
> >> > > 	So, I finally decided to fix my issue of basically ignoring the 
> >> > > WiFi adapter in my old Dell Inspiron 8500 laptop. It has a "Dell 
> >> > > Truemobile 1300"
> >> > > wifi adapter which is using a Broadcom chipset.
> >> 
> >> > 	Nobody got anything on this?
> >> 
> >>  Nope, sorry. I've been lucky and/or careful in picking 
> >> hardware that's supported under Linux. A couple of 
> >> Atheros-based cards (cardbus & desktop) and a Symbol 
> >> compact-flash card with a PCMCIA adapter. Haven't messed with 
> >> Broadcom at all, nor with WPA (since my Symbol card is 
> >> 802.11b and can't handle WPA).
> >> 
> >>  Sincerely,
> >> 
> >>  Ray Ingles                               (313) 227-2317
> >> 
> >
> >	I hear you.
> >
> >	At the time of buying that laptop, my wife's employer was paying a
> >decent portion of the tab to order through Dell and they provided a limited
> >set of options (a Low-end, Midrange and High-End system), with few
> >customizable elements. I ended up with a really slick (at the time) machine
> >for far less than it would have cost otherwise. 
> >
> >	I also wasn't so concerned with the WiFi card under Linux, since so
> >few places had "Free WiFi" back then and I had no issues with plugging it
> >into my home network.
> >
> >	Oh well, maybe I need to pickup a separate WiFi card and go to town
> >configuring that.
> >
> >	Thanks,
> >	Rob
> >
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