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To owners of Broadcom family wireless chips:

linuxwireless.org supports bcm43xx chipsets, see the full list of supported devices http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43/devices

Information on b43 is on http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

Still I can see no support for my Dell Wireless 1505...

initproc

how you changed the driver to compile with the 2.6.27.2 kernel.

I have this problem with my kernel.

thanks.

I use a dell laptop model m1330. It works. I check it now. you can't compile this driver in 2.6.27.2 kernel version. some kernel APIs such as iwe_stream_add_*() are changed at 2.6.27 version so you can't compile this driver over 2.6.27 kernel version. anyway I compiled this driver to modify iwe_stream_add_*() APIs and run on Fedora Core 8, 2.6.27.2 at my laptop and it works. 

I have to confirm too, that this driver won't work on my Dell D630 Latitude running Ubuntu 8.04.

There is a proprietary driver being offered in Ubuntu from Broadcom which I enabled. However, when I restart, the driver is marked as "enabled" but is not in use.

I have to say that Broadcom sucks. From all the WiFi vendors, it is the worst when it comes to Open Source operating systems.

Even if Broadcom offers a working proprietary driver this is only a very bad "solution".

Dell should look for WiFi vendors that support Free driver development for their chipsets. The Dell I use right now is my company device, personally I wouldn't spend a single € on a notebook with Broadcom hardware. Broadcom is a showstopper.

Hi,

I'm try compile this driver in my machine and not compile (kernel 2.6.27.1 in a Debian sid/experimental). The driver is bad make.

Is posible dell tel boardcom to fix this.???

Can you said we where maquines it's work??? I'm confuse about this. I have a vostro 1510 the driver working in that machine???

Other one.

When dell make a space when localize the infomation about install and configure our machines. Model per model.

In this moment is very hard find it. If you said true about linux and dell you need work very much. The support linux is a compromise with the your clients. And this moment we are in the expectative what we need much more.

I think is very wheel if you starting with the models information billing.

Hi, I'm very happy with my vostro, its very weel work, but a few devices ist'n work weel.

I compromise put my information about this vostro in the an web site space. but isn't. Please build this one

sorry for my very bad english

BasaBuru

Dang, I was all set to switch over to Ubuntu 8.04 I had even booted to it and spent over an  hour and a half trying to get the thing to recognize my wireless connection. We really need to get the drivers going for the D630 series. Talk about a let down, back to Windows XP for me.

It's not true.

I have a dell 1505 and is a boardcom BCM4328

In my vostro this driver isn't work

:(

when we have a driver for dell 1505

thanks

Like PJ said above, any chance of support for the Broadcom 4328 found in my Latitude D630?

The link above titled "here" does not go to a valid url

Bob.

Link still broken...?

Any chance of the BCM4310 chip in the Vostro 1000 being supported?

Any word of support for 1501?

When you say the driver is included in Ubuntu 8.10 do you mean that:

1. it will be included in the ISO distributed by the ubuntu.com web-site
2. it will be included in the Dell's own Ubuntu image
3. or it will be automatically downloaded by the proprietary driver manager?

Frankly, I wouldn't mind if Dell provided an image for every Ubuntu release with all drivers bundled in it (proprietary or not), because I end-up installing proprietary drivers anyway as I am sure do most other owners of Dell laptops/desktops.

The third option, the one I had to deal with when upgrading to 8.04, is a little inconvenient for wireless drivers, because you lose connection as soon as you upgrade and forced to look for that RJ45 cable to plug into the router directly to download the driver (that is if you have physical access to the router).

Cheers

How about support for the Broadcom 4328, found in the Inspriron 1521s?  I'd love to get off the ndiswrapper driver I'm using.

Thanks Christopher, thats good to hear. I recently ordered 2 inspiron 1525 laptops from the dell.ca (canadian) website that come with dell branded wireless cards.

I really wanted to buy a dell ubuntu system, but unfortunately - at least in Canada - the "sale" that they had featuring inspiron 1525 provided a Vista 1525 that came with more memory, larger hard drive, and a vaster processor for less $$$$$$ than the ubuntu 1525. I want to support linux adoption, but I can't pay extra money to buy a technically inferior system just because it doesn't come with windows :S

I called a dell but they were not able to sweeten the linux system deal at all so I was forced to purchase the vista version of the laptops. However, I wanted to make it clear to someone at dell (maybe you know who I can email about this) that the only reason I'm buying their computers at all is to support their move in the right direction regarding linux PCs. So Dell got my business because of their 'playing nice' with the open source/free software world - but it really would have been preferable to actually buy the linux system without costing me hundreds of $$$$s to match the windows system.

Sorry for the off topic rant, and keep up the good work with linux/ubuntu :D

Pat

The link is broken for the try it out.  It tries to access outlook.dell.com.

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