Fri, 17 Oct 2003
Broadcom 802.11g Wireless Drivers For Linux
Well, miracle of miracles I see a message come across the emachines laptop group on Yahoo this morning mentioning that Linuxant has a linux driver of sorts for the Broadcom 802.11g chipset that's built into my Emachines M5310 laptop. This has been the one major sticking point in running linux on this machine, although I've managed to limp along with the reliable orinoco 802.11b card in the meantime. So, these folks have some sort of architecture whereby they're wrapping the windows driver and allowing linux to speak to it, throught it, something like that. I'm not sure that I understand it fully. Anyhow, I mailed the support folks at linuxant as per their instructions and asked them whether they support the variant of the broadcom chipset that appears in this machine which lspci identifies as BCM94306 rev 02. I'm gonna wait till I hear from them before proceeding with the install as it could be a bit of work that I don't want to waste if it's hopeless. But there is hope, which was better than the situation previously where it seemed that Broadcom would never release a linux driver.
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