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On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 09:20:54PM -0800, Alex Davis wrote: > The problem is that, with laptops, most of the time you DON'T have a choice: > HP and Dell primarily use a Broadcomm integrated wireless card in ther products. > As of yet, there is no open source driver for Broadcomm wireless. > > >If 8k stacks get removed, yes. So if you have a chance to choose don't buy a > >wifi card which doesn't have a native linux driver. Dell "Software & Peripherals" sells "customer kits" of the Intel ipw2915 for $59 US, so even if you bought the "wrong" wireless NIC when you bought the laptop, this can be remedied. -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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