[Tfug] bcm4306 wireless

[Chad Woolley]

Here's a quote from the Linux wireless maintainer at the beginning of
the year, who admits "I'm just the defacto guy, with no interest in
the job.":

"another banner year has passed, with Linux once again proving its
superiority in the area of crappy wireless (WiFi) support. Linux
oldsters love the current state of wireless, because it hearkens back
to the heady days of Yuri Gagarin, Sputnik and Linux kernel 0.99, when
getting hardware to work under Linux required either engineering
knowledge or luck (or both)."

http://kerneltrap.org/node/6053

Linux desktop has come a long way, but things like video and wireless
are still archaic, and have a long way to go...

-- Chad


On 5/26/06, Paul Scott <waterhorse at ultrasw.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
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