[ale] wireless card

[David Tomaschik]

Geoffrey wrote:
> David Tomaschik wrote:
>> Brian Pitts wrote:
>>> Unfortunately, sometimes cards that do have native drivers perform
>>> better with ndiswrapper. My one experience with this was a
>>> broadcom-based card that crawled at 30KBps with the native linux
>>> driver + the firmware cut from a windows driver, then shot up to
>>> 300KBps with ndiswrapper + the windows driver.
>>>
>>> -Brian
>> I hate broadcom cards.  I am wondering what makes them so hard to write
>> an open driver for (or rather, to improve the driver for).  Anyone know
>> of a good source for replacement minipci cards?  (i.e., intel).  I'd
>> love to get rid of the broadcom in my Dell.
>
> You might want to do some research before you do that.  I don't know
> about Dell, but I have an hp laptop that I tried to put a minipci
> wireless card in and it wouldn't boot, complaining about unrecognized
> hardware.  Turns out, HP wants you to use THEIR card, therefore the
> error message.  Pretty well sucks.
>
Wow, that is crazy.  Yet another reason my next notebook will NOT be an HP.


David