Re: Broadcom WIFI and FC$

From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 19:08:34 GMT

David wrote:

Thanks Larry,
Will try ndiswarpper and see what happens. Worse case is that I will
revert back to a single operating system thatnks to Uncle Bill :(

That shouldn't be necessary. I have used a Linksys WPC54G, which has a BCM4306 chip, on my HP notebook for more than a year using ndiswrapper under SuSE 9.2 and 10.0. It works better than on the OS (??) from Redmond. Linux always connects immediately; whereas XP takes about 5 minutes after it appears to finish booting before the wireless card connects with my WPA-PSK enabled AP.

You might want to keep an eye on the bcm43xx project (http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/), which is writing a reverse-engineered, native Linux driver for the BCM43xx chips. The driver is working without encryption, but is not yet ready for prime time, but at the recent progress rate, it should be very usable within a couple of months.

Larry
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