Fedora Users — Re: Dell Precision M60 LapTop (Built-in Wireless) support

That's about the stupidest way you can go man. If you use Linuxant's drivers they will have proof that people are wanting support for these chips and gives them ammo to convince broadcom who made your chip to finally release Linux drivers. Just sitting around thinking someone's going to port them is just wishful thinking. Same as using WineX shows game developers that people want to play their games on Linux and gets them thinking about supporting Linux in their next title or porting some of their games or outsourcing some other company to port it for them.

FYI all of cisco's 54g chips IIRC are from broadcom so you'll find no luck there. And I'll doubt you'll be happy in the 802.11b world.

Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:

On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 11:27, W. Chris Shank wrote:

If it's a centrino laptop - there are no drivers as far as I know.
However, there is a driverwrapper you can buy from these guys (WLAN
driverloader). www.linuxant.com - I had success getting this to run in
FC beta 3


I refused to use Windows drivers!!!  I will just go with CISCO PCMCIA
for now and wait for someone at RedHat, etc.. to write a driver.
Pure Linux only.

On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 11:10, Griego, Susan Cohoe wrote:

Hi,

I have a DELL M60 Precision LapTop with built-in wireless.

Does anyone know what drivers work with the above?

DELL calls this  "DELL TRUE MOBILE 1300" WLAN Mini-PCI 802.11 b/g
Looks like Windows is using BCMWL5.sys (Provider BroadCom Corporation)

Any ideas.

Thanks,

Susan