[Tfug] bcm4306 wireless

[Paul Scott]

Tom Rini wrote:
> 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. 
Do you know anything else about this real driver?
>  It's of course not perfect but it is usable.
> I don't have any first-hand experiance with it however, sorry.
>   
Anything you do know, second-hand or otherwise, would be appreciated.

Paul