[Tfug] bcm4306 wireless

[Brian Masur]

My Gateway 7422GX notebook has internal mini-PCI bcm4306.  While it works 
with ndiswrapper (and 64-bit windows driver) it does have some trouble.  It 
often switches off from whatever ESSID it was on to ESSID:NONE/OFF.  The 
only way I can bring it back when it does that is to rmmod/modprobe 
ndiswrapper.  IMO, ndiswrapper is total rubbish.

I would recommend getting a better pcmcia/cardbus adapter like one with an 
orinoco, atheros, or prism chip, (I recommend Senao) or wait until the 
broadcom driver in development is usable/useful.  Yes, there is a broadcom 
driver but it didn't work for me last time I tried, which was at least four 
months ago.  Good luck!

>From: Paul Scott <waterhorse at ultrasw.com>
>Reply-To: Tucson Free Unix Group <tfug at tfug.org>
>To: Tucson Free Unix Group <tfug at tfug.org>
>Subject: Re: [Tfug] MSI CB5462 chipset
>Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 18:02:09 -0700
>
>Paul Scott wrote:
> > Does anyone know what the chipset is in the MSI CB5462 PCMCIA wireless
> > card (sold at Ultramedia)?
>Turns out it was a CB54G2 which once used the friendly RaLink RT2500 but
>the one I got has a Broadcom BCM4306 which apparently will work with
>ndiswrapper.
>
>Paul
>
>
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