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On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Ray Seals wrote:

> I'm not a programmer nor do I play one on TV.  But I have a fairly new

I got a good kick out of that comment... :)

> e-machines laptop with a Broadcom 440x chip set which has integrated
> wireless 802.11 b/g.
>
> The bfe driver works great for the wired world.  If anyone is working on
> the wireless part, I would be more than happy to assist in any testing
> or provide any support that I can.

You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone with a working implementation of a
driver for the Broadcom chip as it's specs are not publically available.

You might want to give the NDISulator ("Project Evil") a try.

Regards,
Andy

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