[dundee] Broadcom Wireless Cards

[Chad Wollenberg]

Interestingly enough, I just loaded Mint 5 on an HP laptop with a broadcom
wireless card in it, and it automatically wrapped it with Ndiswrapper. I
couldn't believe it. It just worked.

Good to hear broadcom is coming around.

Chad

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Kris Davidson <davidson.kris at gmail.com>wrote:

> You never know maybe they'll support it retroactivly
>
> 2008/10/3 gordon dunlop <astrozubenel at googlemail.com>:
> > Would you believe it Broadcom has released linux drivers for their
> > newer wireless cards. This is where you do not need to use Ndiswrapper
> > or BCM43xx firmware cutter. Here is the site for download:
> >
> > http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php
> >
> > Obviously for older cards it is back to the old methods, is the world
> > really changing regarding Linux? Yup slowly but surely.
> >
> > Gordon
> >
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