[LUNI] Trouble with broadcom wireless 4311 in Ubuntu 7.10

[Trev Peterson]

I really hope this is not a wide spread practice.  Talking with their
tech support a year or so back the impression they gave me was this was
standard on all "consumer grade" (non-business) HP laptops.  Hopefully
they stopped this and it was isolated to the HP side.  I just thought I
should mention it before the OP considers buying a wifi card for the
laptop.

HTH,

	Trev

On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 21:58 -0600, Andrew Bassett wrote:
> >
> > The laptop will not boot if you put in
> > a "non-approved" (read non-HP) wifi card.  Seems to be the latest
> > lock-in strategy.  HP refuses to take the laptop back or to provide a
> > BIOS not locked.  Needless to say I do not recommend HP laptops to
> > clients.  Good luck and I hope yours is not this way.
> >
> >
> I have an HP Compaq 8710w with integrated wireless which will not work on
> kernels < 2.6.18. I slapped in a b/g pcmcia dlink card and I'm typing this
> right now from a wireless connection.
> 
> -- 
> Andrew Bassett
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Trev Peterson
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