Re: New laptop - hardware questions

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:43:47 -0400, Baho Utot wrote:

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".

My Compaq is several years old, you probably have a different Broadcom
chip than I do. I'm also running 64 bit Fedora. I have the 64 bit XP
driver which I've tried both with 64 bit Ndiswrapper and with FWcutter
plus the native driver. It's not worth putting any effort into this,
wireless isn't that important. I'm planning on getting a new laptop early
next year when the 45nm Core2s come out. That machine will have an Intel
wireless chip so I won't have to deal with the pain of trying to get the
piece of *** Broadcom chip to work.
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