Dell Precision M60 LapTop (Built-in Wireless) support

Sean Hogston sean at hogston.net
Thu Nov 13 19:09:36 UTC 2003


you can order the truemobile 1150 i think it is, from dell for $50
It is supported under linux :)

By the way the Broadcom chip is your onboard nic.

Sean


On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 23:36, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 11:27, W. Chris Shank wrote:
> > If it's a centrino laptop - there are no drivers as far as I know.
> > However, there is a driverwrapper you can buy from these guys (WLAN
> > driverloader). www.linuxant.com - I had success getting this to run in
> > FC beta 3
> I refused to use Windows drivers!!!  I will just go with CISCO PCMCIA
> for now and wait for someone at RedHat, etc.. to write a driver.
> Pure Linux only.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 11:10, Griego, Susan Cohoe wrote:
> > >  Hi,
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > I have a DELL M60 Precision LapTop with built-in wireless.
> > > 
> > > Does anyone know what drivers work with the above?
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > DELL calls this  "DELL TRUE MOBILE 1300" WLAN Mini-PCI 802.11 b/g
> > > Looks like Windows is using BCMWL5.sys (Provider BroadCom Corporation)
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > Any ideas.
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > Susan
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > >  





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