Broadcom wireless on Debian Testing

JoeHill joehill-R6A+fiHC8nRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org
Wed Jul 1 23:02:14 UTC 2009


Aviss,Tyler wrote: 

>  From what I remember, You should only use one or the other of "b43"  
> or "b43legacy."

That's the thing, I couldn't really see anywhere in the process that I had a
choice...
 
> Also, I'd have to check your particular card, but from my experience  
> the b43 drivers don't often support the 802.11N cards. My coworkers N  
> card requires ndiswrapper, and mine works with the closed "wl" driver  
> that broadcomm themselves maintain (similar to the nvidia/ATI binary  
> blob drivers for video)
> 
> I can check further when I get home and at my laptop if you'd like

That would be awesome if you could. I would like to avoid ndiswrapper, but if I
have to I have to, right?

Thanks!

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