On Friday 18 April 2008 00:42, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Friday 18 April 2008 00:07, Paul Bransford wrote:
> > >> Let me venture a guess -- your laptop doesn't have a Broadcom wnic...
> >
> > NDISWRAPPER is not required for broadcom chips anymore, if you have the
> > common chipset (bcm43xx) - see here: http://bcm43xx.berlios.de
> >
> > I've tested it out, and besides always reporting 100% signal strength,
> > it works for what testing I've done (long before this and after deciding
> > ndiswrapper was lame,
>
> On my Compaq laptop, I tried and tried and tried to get the bcm43xx running
> right. I got way too intimate with bcm-cutter or whatever that thing is to
> do the firmware, I tried everything. Yeah, it worked. For five minutes at a
> time til it froze the system.
>
> I put ndiswrapper on the system, and it worked perfectly. Yeah, in a
> perfect world I'd like a native driver, but back in the old days, it sure
> was nice to know that if the native driver wouldn't work, you had a plan B
> with ndiswrapper.
By the way, for more details on my experiences with the Compaq laptop, see
here:
http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/200612/200612.htm
SteveT
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