[Wylug-discuss] Laptops again

[James Holden]

On Mon, 2011-10-24 at 11:18 +0100, Paul Brook wrote:
> > 03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n
> > Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
> 
> Short story is that there are two drivers for Broadcom chipsets: b43 which has 
> been about for years [originally] based on reverse-engineering, and brcmsmac 
> which is Broadcom's eventual attempt at an open source driver.  The former is 
> usually the preferred solution, but unfortunately doesn't support your 
> chipset.

It was a broadcom in the dell netbook. I swapped it for an intel one
(iwlagn driver).

James

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