On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:20:21 -0500 "John W. Linville" <linville@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Why did you "have" to do that? As stated above, I "had to do that" because that's the only way that I found to make this wireless card work. > Did you consider simply installing > the proper firmware so that the b43 driver would access the card? I spent most of a day searching for and downloading assorted firmware and drivers for Broadcom wireless chipsets from multiple sources, running b43-fwcutter, and so on. The only one that I managed to find that can actually see this BCM94311MCG chipset is R151519.EXE downloaded directly from Dell's website. R151519.EXE and ndiswrapper work, and I can use that combination to get online. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to support wireless security, at least not the way that I currently have it set up. It just silently fails to log into my router when the router is set for "WEP/WEP2" as it usually is -- changing the security setting on my router to "disabled" allows it to work fine. If there is a better driver that you or anyone else is aware of, I'm certainly prepared to hear about it. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com
