Re: Broadcom 4311 and Xandros OS
Rene Borchers <[email protected]> 26 Mar 2007 09:20:07 +0200
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"Luis A. Morana" <[email protected]> writes: > Hello, > I have a Compaq Presario C500 Laptop running Xandros 4.0. Works great but cannot get my wireless Broadcom 4311 to work. I have been told that the problem is a bug in the native Broadcom driver; while the card receive power the antenna does not. > I configured the wireless card using the standard procedures in Xandros and also tried the NDIS Wrappers with the Windows .inf drivers but it does not work. Browsed the Internet and tried a few solutions published in different forums. > Contacted Broadcom and they do not support end customers like me and suggested to take a look at your site. > I am new to Linux and I am not sure if I can find the right solution in Linuxant. > Would you kindly guide me a little bit with some suggestions on where to star finding a solution? > Thank you for your time and consideration. > Luis. > _______________________________________________ > driverloader mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.linuxant.com/mailman/listinfo/driverloader > Hello Luis, I have been using the driverloader for a few years now with a Belkin wireless card which is also using the broadcom chipset. When you follow the install instructions, you should be up and running in no time. Rene. -- ------------------------------------------------------ Registered Linux User No.291649 http://www.linux-counter.org Registered LFS user No.16792 http://www.lfs.org Uptime: 08:49:19 up 6 days, 14:07, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.01 Kernel: Linux 2.6.18.6.tex1 GNU/Linux Processor: model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz web: http://rene-borchers.homelinux.com ------------------------------------------------------ You'll feel much better once you've given up hope.