Larry Finger escribió: > Martin Marques wrote: >> Just turned on my Compaq Presario F506la and the broadcom wireless >> wouldn't come up, checking where the problem could be I found that the >> wireless slot didn't appear anymore with lspci. >> >> Has anybody experienced this same problem? >> >> Wifi was working great until now. > > Some recent HP laptops had a bug in the BIOS that did not run the fan > aggressively enough, the motherboard overheated, and the PCI interface > to the wireless card failed. It happened to me with the computer under > warranty. While it was in for repair, HP suddenly recalled it and mine > was replaced with the model that was roughly the same cost. After a > year, that meant 1 GB RAM => 3, 120 GB hard drive => 250, etc. > > I think it is likely that Compaq models also had the same problem. How > old is the unit? If not under warranty, I would bitch to Compaq - the > squeaky wheel might just get some grease.
It has just under one year. I already contacted HP and they are going to send some one from the local support to check it out. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
