Potentially a very bad move! I use to have problems with the bc4311 in my compaq Presario V3020au but now with the b43 firmware it is all good. I dont know about Fedora, you may have to use fwcutter and get the firmware and extract it manually, but in Debian and Ubuntu just do
apt-get install b43-fwcutter it will download, extract and place the firmware for you. The reason I suggest changing the card could be a bad move, is that a friend of mine had the same laptop and decided to change the card to an atheros one, the bios rejected it and would not allow the system to boot, in the end he did a nasty bios hack, once the OS takes over the card runs perfectly, but the hacked bios was causing other issues and in the end he went back to the Broadcom card and an official HP bios. HP of course deny putting hardware restrictions in the bios. Tuxta On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 00:36 +1000, Daryl Thompson wrote: > I have a Compaq Presario C302T laptop with a Broadcom 802.11 a/b/g > wireless MINI PCI-E. > > I am having problems getting this card working and stable in fedora 7, 8 > and now 9. I have read the the Intel wireless MINI PCI-E cards are > better supported and have been looking to bye the INTEL WM3945AGM1WB - > INTEL PRO/WIRELESS MINI PCI-E. would any one recommend this as a > good wireless MINI PCI-E. what is will this work better then the > Broadcom 802.11 a/b/g wireless MINI PCI-E and easyer to configure. Or is > there any other wireless MINI PCI-E a/b/g card that you > could recommend. > > Note the Compaq Presario C302T laptop only has 2 internal antenna > inside. > > -- > Daryl Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
