Hi,
I recently bought an HP Pavilion dv2412ca laptop, which came with Vista
pre-installed. I backed it up, then reformatted and installed Mandriva
2007.1.
The laptop has a builtin wireless card that lspci identifies as a "Broadcom
Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card (rev 02)". I
Shocky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently bought an HP Pavilion dv2412ca laptop, which came with Vista
> pre-installed. I backed it up, then reformatted and installed Mandriva
> 2007.1.
>
> The laptop has a builtin wireless card that lspci identifies as a "Broadcom
> Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 W
There are two drivers that support the hardware. The new one (the one
you want) that works with mac80211 is b43. It uses v4 firmware.
The older one (the one you don't want) works with ieee80211softmac is
b43legacy. It uses v3 firmware.
I would download the latest wireless-dev kernel (2.6.23-
Ehud Gavron wrote:
There are two drivers that support the hardware. The new one (the one
you want) that works with mac80211 is b43. It uses v4 firmware.
The older one (the one you don't want) works with ieee80211softmac is
b43legacy. It uses v3 firmware.
Disregard the rest of my answer...