broadcom wireless

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:

>
> I'm trying to get the built-in wireless working on a new Compag
> v5000z.  lspci claims the following:
>
>    06:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1470 DualBand WLAN (rev 02)
>            Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 1358
>            Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
>            Memory at c0204000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
>
> I'd first assumed it was a BCM43xx card and followed the instructions
> on bcm43xx-fwcutter to get the card going.  I never see an eth1 (or
> other new network device) show up under "ifconfig -a".
>
> Short of ripping the laptop apart and putting the wireless chips under
> a magnifying glass, how do I find out what chip this really is?  (Or
> is "1470" the chip number?  I had assumed it was a the mini-pci card's
> model number.)

It's probably a broadcom 4318...

joelja

> -wolfgang
>
>

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