BroadCom Wireless and ALPS Touchpad
John
dingo at coco2.arach.net.au
Mon Sep 27 04:38:59 UTC 2004
Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 08:39:57PM +0100, Enyo wrote:
>
>
>>I have a HP nx9105 Laptop which has a BroadCom Wireless Internal Module.
>>
>>ubuntu does not detect it. It appears most distros require the use of
>>ndiswrapper to make it work correctly. Does anyone have any experience
>>of this? Will this remain the case in ubuntu?
>
>
> ndiswrapper is used for these devices because a proper Linux driver is not
> available anywhere. This affects all Linux distributions equally, including
> Ubuntu.
I suggest hassling HP about it. HP does have a laptop on which it
supports linux. Making your displeasure known to HP may help futurre users.
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