success/failure stories with FC3 on inspiron 8600/9200s
Erik Hemdal
ehemdal at townisp.com
Thu Nov 25 20:41:34 UTC 2004
> rt, forgot to mention mine is a TrueMobile 1450 (a/b/g combo card).
>
> The truemobile 1450 is a broadcom 4309. which can be used through
> something like one of the ndis drivers loaders... but you'd be better off
> with an atheros chipset a/b/g card. where you can grab the srpm and just
> build it for your kernel.
>
Yes, probably should have mentioned that. I haven't taken the time to
try to get it working because I have an alternative that works OK with a
native driver. I had some email from one of the Broadcom product
managers who mentioned that Linux support is a low priority because
"Linux users have alternatives" (or something to that effect). I was a
bit miffed.
I probably shouldn't be, because its just a business decision on
Broadcom's part. But given my experience on Windows, I am not looking
forward to doing anything with that card. I think it's going to be
painful.
BTW, Dell does provide a Broadcom driver for Windows XP via its Website.
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/type.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&SystemID=LAT_PNT_PM_D600&category=5&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=6483&devlib=5
is where I found it. Broadcom won't, they refer you to the laptop
manufacturer. This is a US/Canada driver; I'm not certain how to get
drivers for other regions because I'm in North America.
Erik
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