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what bmc board do you have? try a lspci and tell us what board you have. |
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some bcm boards do work fine with their native linux driver. |
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2007/11/4, Unknown <list-catcher@××××××××××.com>: |
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> I decided to join the laptop club and bought a Compaq Presario |
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> V6420US. |
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> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834147458 |
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> Call me ancient but I´ve never had wireless ethernet before so it´s new |
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> to me. I can´t seem to get it working. Initially I tried using |
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> ndiswrapper but compaq.com gives me file not found for the XP drivers. |
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> Then I tried (as I did not know it existed before) using the Broadcom |
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> drivers in the linux kernel. This fails too with no access points |
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> found. dmesg reveals bcm43xx: FATAL ERROR: BCM43xx_IRQ_XMIT_ERROR. |
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> The laptop has a wired ethernet port which works without any harassment |
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> at all. But it´s a laptop... I don´t want to be plugged into anything. |
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> Searching google reveals that some ubuntu user got it working so I know |
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> it´s possible. I just don´t know what man page I need to read or what |
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> documentation I´m missing. If anyone has a clue I´d be appreciative. |
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> gentoo-amd64@g.o mailing list |
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dott. ing. beso |
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