Am Mittwoch 04 Juli 2007 schrieb Gnu_Raiz: > On Wednesday 04 July 2007, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > Am Mittwoch 04 Juli 2007 schrieb Cavan Mejias: > > > Has anybody had success changing the supplied broadcom wireless card > > > in a Dell 1501 for another brand? The driver supplied in Etch doesn't > > > work and i cant get Nidis wrapper to function yet. Thanks > > > > Which chipset ??? > > > > Check with lspci. > > > > Regards > > > > Hans > > When you mean supplied what exactly do you mean, a mini-pci card, or > another card. I have had lots of success changing out the mini-pci card > on a Dell 600M, it even has it's own antenna you just unscrew the cover > and carefully remove the card. Of course these are all Intel based wifi > cards, I changed out the 802.11b Intel card for a 802.11g card that would > work better with my mimo AP. > > http://www.intel.com/network/connectivity/products/wireless/prowireless_mob >ile.htm > > Now Gnu/linux support might not be exactly what you want, but they might > be better than a broadcom chipset. What I would do is go buy yourself a > usb ralink card, I have one based on the rt71 chipset, not only is it > great under Debian, it is portable. > > http://3btech.net/chrart80wius.html > > I usually get good reception as the card hangs out of the usb port, for > the price it seems to be a good deal compared to some windows only card. > > Gnu_Raiz
No, what I mean is: What chipset has your card ? Broadcom is just the manufacturer. Some broacom cards are native supported by the kernel. You have to find out, which chipset your broadcom card has. Otherwise, I cannot help you. regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
