> -----Original Message----- > From: David Goodenough [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 9:57 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Acer 5002WLMi, Debian, and a nasty wireless chip > > 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. > > David > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
Cool! How the heck did you know to do THAT!? -C
