Dru Devore wrote: > I wrote this group about this card, Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless > 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card rev 02, a couple of weeks ago and got some > information from Larry, Thank you Larry. > > I have been seeing a lot of messages lately about the b43 and was > wondering if it would possibly work with this chip. If not what can I do > to help the support for this card. Also, if anyone knows how to get this > card to work in any way without locking up the OS I would appreciate > that information also. I am currently using ndisswrapper and it is > freezing the whole OS. I need this to work so I can get back off > windows, vista, on this computer.
That chip is what I use with b43. It does not freeze the computer. You need to get a mainstream kernel from kernel.org that is 2.6.21, or later. Those kernels use the bcm43xx driver. Alternatively, you can get the kernel from John Linville's wireless-dev git tree and build b43 for it. You will also need to install the supported firmware for your driver by downloading the appropriate version of wl_apstaXXX.o, installing fwcutter, and extracting the embedded codes. For bcm43xx, you will need V3 and use bcm43xx-fwcutter. For b43, you will need V4 and b43-fwcutter. Don't blame us for the complications here. It is Broadcom's fault. The archives of the mailing list and the bcm43xx site have a lot of explanation on how to do this. Alternatively, go to the forums of your distro. Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
