Re: Does bcm4310 work with Debian Lenny?

2010-04-16 Thread Norbert Zeh
Norbert Zeh [2010.04.15 1517 -0300]: Mark [2010.04.13 1542 -0700]: Hi, I'm considering purchasing a new laptop like this one http://www.thelinuxlaptop.com/viper-linux-laptop.php which uses a Dell Wireless 1490 card a.k.a. bcm4310. I've used b43-fwcutter with great results on older

Re: Does bcm4310 work with Debian Lenny?

2010-04-15 Thread Norbert Zeh
Mark [2010.04.13 1542 -0700]: Hi, I'm considering purchasing a new laptop like this one http://www.thelinuxlaptop.com/viper-linux-laptop.php which uses a Dell Wireless 1490 card a.k.a. bcm4310. I've used b43-fwcutter with great results on older dell bcm43xx cards in Lenny but bcm4310 is

Re: Does bcm4310 work with Debian Lenny?

2010-04-14 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:42:33 -0700, Mark wrote: I'm considering purchasing a new laptop like this one http://www.thelinuxlaptop.com/viper-linux-laptop.php which uses a Dell Wireless 1490 card a.k.a. bcm4310. I've used b43-fwcutter with great results on older dell bcm43xx cards in Lenny but

Re: Does bcm4310 work with Debian Lenny?

2010-04-14 Thread Omar Campagne
My 2 cents :) 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?) I think your chip is also covered by wl.ko (official linux module,

Re: Does bcm4310 work with Debian Lenny?

2010-04-14 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:42:33 -0700 Mark mamar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm considering purchasing a new laptop like this one http://www.thelinuxlaptop.com/viper-linux-laptop.php which uses a Dell Wireless 1490 card a.k.a. bcm4310. I've used b43-fwcutter with great results on older dell

Re: Does bcm4310 work with Debian Lenny?

2010-04-14 Thread Mark
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

Re: Does bcm4310 work with Debian Lenny?

2010-04-14 Thread Mark
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Mark mamar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm considering purchasing a new laptop like this one http://www.thelinuxlaptop.com/viper-linux-laptop.php Interesting, I've done a lot of comparing today and building a machine on HP's website actually seems to get the most

Does bcm4310 work with Debian Lenny?

2010-04-13 Thread Mark
Hi, I'm considering purchasing a new laptop like this one http://www.thelinuxlaptop.com/viper-linux-laptop.php which uses a Dell Wireless 1490 card a.k.a. bcm4310. I've used b43-fwcutter with great results on older dell bcm43xx cards in Lenny but bcm4310 is not listed here