Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 09:59:57AM +0200, Magnus Morén wrote:
[CUT]
> > When I tried it (ie modprobe bcm43xx) on my Dell Latitude X300 it froze
> > my machine totally.
>
> that's why we crippled it so that it doesn't auto-load.
> There's something funky about the Dell's that the driver tickles
> in some way. The same behaviour hasn't been seen on any other
> systems afaik.
>
> Dave
OK. Is there something I can do (try or test) to help solving the
problem. It would be nice to have it working without ndiswrpapper.
hardware:
- Dell Latitude X300
- 02:04.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4309 802.11a/b/g
(rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Truemobile 1400
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
Memory at e0210000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
software:
- FC5 with all current updates
/Magnus Morén
