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On 2012-12-07, Mick wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 04 Dec 2012 15:30:04 Dustin C. Hatch wrote: |
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>> On 12/4/2012 06:11, Florian Philipp wrote: |
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>> > Do you actually need broadcom-sta anymore? With the recent kernel |
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>> > updates more chips work with the in-kernel driver (brcmsmac). But the |
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>> > config option is well hidden (you need to enable BCMA to even see it). |
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>> Yes, I initially tried the b43 driver, which worked, but consistently |
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>> dropped about 5-15% of packets, making it mostly unusable. I also tried |
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>> bcrmsmac and bcrmfmac, and neither of them supported my card (432b). |
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>> Unfortunately, I can't get a different card, either, because I my |
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>> notebook has a "whitelist" of supported devices in the BIOS, and it |
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>> won't even boot with a mini-pci-e card installed that isn't in that |
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>> list. Thanks, HP :( |
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> This sounds scary!!! Isn't there a way of disabling this feature in |
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> the BIOS? |
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With HP, you don't even get a BIOS setup. You get something that tells |
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you the processor temperature and possibly lets you change the boot |
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order. |
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> Have you spoken to the HP police to ask what they can do to allow you to |
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> manage the machine you bought from them? O_O |
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I guess I could do that too. I find it a bit annoying that they don't |
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even offer a BIOS setup and then decide to silently flip some of the |
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settings with BIOS upgrades (like disabling AMD-V...) |
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Nuno Silva (aka njsg) |
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http://njsg.sdf-eu.org/ |
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