Re: New laptop - hardware questions

General Schvantzkopf wrote:

On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 08:26:53 -0400, Baho Utot wrote:

General Schvantzkopf wrote:

[putolin]

Make sure you get the Intel Wireless option not the default option.
Intel wireless is completely supported in Linux. The other option that
they offer is an unknown, if it's Broadcom you'll be completely
screwed.

How so? the broadcom wireless in my Dell works perfectly with the Fedora
7 broadcom kernel module. You just need the latest kernel, the one that
comes in the DVD install iso is flawed.

I'm running the latest kernel, it's hopeless.

I don't understand that as my broadcom in my Isperion 1501 works great on
Fedora 7. That was the major reason for me to go to Fedora 7 from Fedora
core 6. With the kernel from the install DVD performance was terrible but
with the kernel updated with yum works better than very good. I use to use
ndis with this under Core 6. I wanted to use the kernel "driver" for
broadcom so that every time I do something kernel related (upgrade) I
didn't lose my wireless until I reinstalled ndis. If I can find my notes I
can post them here, maybe it work for you too?

But here is what I remember from memory
I got most of the information here:
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#caveats

If I remember correctly I used the fw-cutter and the firmware tarball from
that site and followed their instructions and I was up and running in 15
minutes. The only-est thing that I needed to do was to put an alias into
modprobe.conf so the Fedora 7 KDE "Network" tool would find it an allow me
to configure the interface using the GUI "tools".

--
Dancin in the ruins tonight
Tayo'y Mga Pinoy
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