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On ons, feb 07, 2007 at 04:16:38pm +0200, Ian FREISLICH wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've got a dell laptop with a BCM4306 mini-pci adaptor.  My guess
> is that broadcom haven't opened up their docs so there will be no
> driver other than the NDIS one.  This is just an "I'm hoping that
> I've missed something message".
I tried making it work with ndiswrapper but I gave up after some time.
I found a driver from Dell that should support it, but it would just
find the device, using it with ifconfig, dhclient etc. did not work.

I would just recommend buying an iwi chip.

-- 
Ulf Lilleengen