Thank you for providing this driver.

I have successfully gotten my Dell Inspiron with a B130 Dell Wireless
1470 (802.11a/b/g) Dual-Band WLAN miniPCI Card (pciid: 14e4:4319)
connected using WPA-PSK.

I used a hybrid openSUSE 11.2/11.1 LiveDVD to boot with kernel
2.6.30-rc6-git3-4-default.
I then ran /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware to install the firmware.
I floundered about for awhile before I realized that I had failed to
physically enable the transmitter using the keyboard toggle.  I then
ran NetworkManager to finish the configuration.

I had previously messed around with ndiswrapper unsuccessfully for a
few days under an older kernel.

Here is some information about my system since it does not appear on
the wiki, and I don't see how to add an entry for
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Devices/PCI.  If I did, it'd look
like this:

Driver  Vendor  Product         PCI Vendor      PCI Product     PCI Subvendor   
PCI Subsystem

b43     Dell    Dell Wireless 1470 (802.11a/b/g) Dual-Band WLAN miniPCI
Card    0x14e4  0x4319  ?       ?

b43|Dell|Dell Wireless 1470 (802.11a/b/g) Dual-Band WLAN miniPCI
Card|0x14e4|0x4319|?|?

dmesg output:
===========================================
[   89.857957] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated:
[   89.866308]  (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth),
(max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)
[   89.874713]  (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[   91.447801] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4318 WLAN found (core revision 9)
[   95.844298] phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel'
[   95.844770] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PMLR, Firmware-ID: FW13 ]
[   97.160860] rtc_cmos 00:0b: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0
[   97.169200] rtc0: alarms up to one day, 242 bytes nvram, hpet irqs
[  153.786523] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[  153.787299] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[  173.965005] mtrr: no MTRR for c0000000,10000000 found
[  194.937755] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[  195.781807] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[  196.222974] platform microcode: firmware: requesting intel-ucode/06-0d-08
[  196.327226] Microcode Update Driver: v2.00
<[email protected]>, Peter Oruba
===========================================

lspci -vv output
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 [AirForce
54g] 802.11a/b/g PCI Express Transceiver (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1470 Dual Band WLAN Mini-PCI Card
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 64
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
        Region 0: Memory at dfbfe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
        Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Let me know if there's anything further I can provide to assist with
the support for this card.

Regards,
Mike Kienenberger
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