On Monday 30 January 2006 14:49, sjb wrote: > Hi, All - > > Love my laptop, hate my wireless (Broadcom 4318), and am > wondering if anyone has/had: > > a) any good response with the Broadcom43xx driver in development w/ the > above system &/or the above wireless card. > > b) any knowledge/experience of an acpi/ acer_acpi patch for the 2.6.15 > kernel? I've got the source for the driver itself, but it doesn't like > to install. > > c) any new ideas for getting the 4318 to work under ndiswrapper, *other* > than the usual ones involving ndiswrapper -i, for conffile...do, and the > like? > > thanks for any hints, clues tips or tricks. > > Steph Although it is for a slightly different Acer one thing I found was that I could enable the wireless card (a mini-PCI one) by interrupting pin 13 on the edge connector. I did this with a permanent marker pen. Then the card was visible to lspci and I could point a driver at it. That way I did not need the acer_hk driver to enable the wireless card.
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