On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ramesh wrote: > > Hi Larry. > > > > I have a HP DV6040US & I do see the same problem. Initiallly, when I > > hit this problem a year back, it was figured out to be a mother board > > issue and HP fixed it by replacing the motherboard. I am seeing the > > same problem for the past 10 days. The mini pci doesnt get detected, > > for every 10 reboots it gets detected once-in-a-while. It looks like > > chronic condition with HP Laptops & my laptop went out of warranty & I > > luckily had it extended, not sure if this is a bcm chipset issue or > > HP's motherboard problem, planning to put a USB Wireless adapter to > > fix this problem. > > Thanks for the info. Perhaps mine will fail 4 times in the next two years. > My extended warranty has > a "lemon" clause. If the item needs hardware repair 4 times, you get the > original purchase price > toward a new machine. My wife bought a new laptop in 2002 and has had it > replaced twice. All it cost > us was the price of the new extended warranty.
Larry, how do you get a warrenty replacement after you "void" the warranty by installing an alternate OS on your HP laptop? -- Henry von Tresckow (hvontres) _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev