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[ale] Modern-Day Linux Wireless
- Subject: [ale] Modern-Day Linux Wireless
- From: esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)
- Date: Thu Apr 22 22:05:04 2004
- In-reply-to: <1082685203.16912.315.camel@localhost>
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Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> The reason I asked was that my AMD64 laptop has an internal Broadcom
> BCM94306 802.11g and I had thought that I would have to at least
> temporarily supplant it with a PCMCIA card to get wireless workign at
> all.
>
> It turns out that there *is* some nascent support for that chip, so 2.6
> and AMD64 support is probably at least feasible if not a no-brainer.
It appears that it may be supported by the same driver. There's at
least a reference to it in the supported cards section, although it's
noted that only two folks have claimed success. Then again, no reported
failures. Check out the list of supported cards:
http://prism54.org/supported_cards.php
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