[Tfug] bcm4306 wireless

[Paul Scott]

Brian Masur wrote:
> My Gateway 7422GX notebook has internal mini-PCI bcm4306.  While it works 
> with ndiswrapper (and 64-bit windows driver) it does have some trouble.  It 
> often switches off from whatever ESSID it was on to ESSID:NONE/OFF.  The 
> only way I can bring it back when it does that is to rmmod/modprobe 
> ndiswrapper.  IMO, ndiswrapper is total rubbish.
>
> I would recommend getting a better pcmcia/cardbus adapter like one with an 
> orinoco, atheros, or prism chip, (I recommend Senao) or wait until the 
> broadcom driver in development is usable/useful.  Yes, there is a broadcom 
> driver but it didn't work for me last time I tried, which was at least four 
> months ago.  Good luck!
>   
Thanks.  Chris Case at Ultramedia thought he was selling me a card with 
RaLink RT2500 which is Linux friendly but MSI apparently changed the 
chip.  I will probably take it back.  Do you know of any inexpensive 
Linux friendly card available locally?

For now I will at least try to get ndiswrapper going just for 
experience.  I also have a Linksys WPC11 ver. 4 which has a Realtek 
RTL8180 which requires building a kernel module which I haven't needed 
to do since I got a Lucent Winmodem going.

Thanks again,

Paul