[Tfug] bcm4306 wireless

[Tom Rini]

On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 11:00:55PM -0700, 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.

With a 2.6.16.X or 2.6.17-rcN kernel, you should be able to use a real
driver for this chipset.  It's of course not perfect but it is usable.
I don't have any first-hand experiance with it however, sorry.

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Tom Rini