Way back on page 6 tempestuous wrote:
I have tried all 3; none of them recognize my wireless card.The bcm43xx module is deprecated in k2.6.25.
You should use b43 or b43legacy.
This is more a kernel issue than a Network Wizard issue.
I googled around and found some interesting comments:
Some there say b43 works if a new copy of "broadcom-wl" is loaded (new firmware, I think). That guy said this:I have also learned that although Dell does offer this laptop [Dell Inspiron 1525, same as mine] with Ubuntu installed, they changed the wireless card on the ubuntu version.
Others had better luck with ndiswrapper. Here is the url:b43 supported cards
* bcm4303 (802.11b-only chips)
* bcm4306
* bcm4309 (only the 2.4GHz part)
* bcm4311 rev 1 / bcm4312
* bcm4311 rev 2 / bcm4312 (needs patches for 2.6.24)
* bcm4318
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=49781
Another guy on another forum said this:
The url is this:Re: dv2020, broadcom 4311 problems
Fixed! I got it working by compiling the latest wireless-2.6 kernel (domesday branch), patching for PCI-E support, manually patching bcm43xx to recognize 4311, and installing the correct firmware (wl_apsta.o). No problem!
(who said linux wasn't user friendly?? )
More information here:
http://bcm43xx.spugna.org/index.php?topic=137.0
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=250083
My wife got me this nice new computer. I sure would like to see Puppy 4.1 work on it. Otherwise I am stuck, AGAIN, back at Puppy 2.16.1. Guess it's time to start fiddling with ndiswrapper.