On Monday 30 January 2006 15:04, Barry, Christopher wrote: > > -----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 A combination of Googling and finding the pin outs for the mini-PCI spec which specifically reserve pin 13 as a "suppress wireless" pin. I suppose they thought that wireless addon card was a likely use of mini-PCI and there was all the fuss about wireless cards interfering with aircraft systems (which largely seems to be wrong) at the time the spec was being written.
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