On 22 August 2013 15:00, J Fernyhough <j.fernyho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 22/08/13 13:21, James Morrissey wrote: > > > --snip-- > > > > The fact that there was a wireless problem on Broadcom BCM43228 and that > the > > freeze appears to correlate with having the machine on battery power (i > am > > > > This sounds like a problem with the Broadcom drivers - this was a > known problem with early versions of bcmwl-kernel-source 6.* (5.* was > fine), but I'm not sure if it has been addressed. The easiest > workaround I found for my Mini311c was to use the b43 driver > (firmware-b43-installer) Yes, that sounds right. Through trawling many forums i was vaguely convinced that this was a wireless-broadcom problem. This also ties in with the fact that i have had numerous problems getting my wireless to work on different releases, on this machine. With this in mind could someone tell me which packages i need to have installed in order to get wireless working. At the moment i have Broadcom STA wireless driver installed, which happened when i enabled additional drivers. If i uninstall bcmwl-kernel-source, which of the following packages do i need to install in order to get my wireless working: firmware-b43-installer, firmware-b43-lppy-installer, b43-fwcutter, and/or firmware-b43legacy-installer. I ask because i have had other problems installing the wrong packages in 13.04 after trying to the the upstream kernel to work (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2140655) - ironically part of a vain attempt to resolve the freezing issue. - other people gave up and put in an Intel > wireless card instead (not an ideal solution but it works). > I have thought of this and would be happy to be rid of this broadcom issue altogether - the only reason i have this card is because Lenovo replaced my previous faulty machine (which had an intel card) with a newer model, which only had a broadcom option. That said, forums tell me that with a laptop i need to make sure the wireless card is compatible with the rest of the machine's components. How do i check this to determine which intel card to buy? Lenovo support is so useless as to make me loath to try contact them about it. Thanks for the help, j
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