[LUNI] Trouble with broadcom wireless 4311 in Ubuntu 7.10

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Gutsy is using version 1.43 and the latest is 1.51 would be the big reason.
And sometimes this magically makes it work.

On Tuesday 08 January 2008 05:06:16 pm Tyler Stoffel wrote:
> I tried what Steve suggested a few weeks back actually, and no luck. I'm
> rather stumped. In the Ubuntu forums, a post says to turn off the bluetooth
> and the wireless magically works, but no go with that either. I have
> recently (today) been told to install ndis wrapper from source rather than
> apt get and it should work, but I don't understand what the difference is,
> and i find installing anything from source to be more hassle than it is
> worth, since the ndis wrapper already installed isn't working. Any thoughts
> as to why installing from source would make a difference?
>
> Tyler
>
> On Jan 7, 2008 8:08 PM, Trev Peterson <trev at advanced-reality.com> wrote:
> > 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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> > Advanced Reality
> > Email: trev at advanced-reality.com
> > Phone: +1 847 406 9018
> >
> >
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