[Wylug-discuss] Laptops again

[Roger Greenwood]

On 24/10/11 13:31, James Holden wrote:
> 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).
I take it this means a screwdriver job?

I note from previous posts and my own searching that this has been going 
on a while. I can confirm that up to now it is not sorted by any of the 
available drivers. But I haven't quite given up yet.

Thanks for all the pointers.

Roger

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