Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:00:03 +0000 From: George Liaskos <geo.liaskos@gmail.com> To: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass9573@gmx.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: is there a native driver for 'Dell Wireless 1397'? Message-ID: <a57b43541003100300m1c394389jd5ba156f09140459@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4B9775B8.3040402@gmx.com> References: <4B976ED8.4090302@gmx.com> <a57b43541003100213i4f4eec85y37e5b8cdc86fb6c@mail.gmail.com> <4B9775B8.3040402@gmx.com>
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On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass9573@gmx.com> wro= te: > On 3/10/2010 12:13 PM, George Liaskos wrote: >> >> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Nikos Vassiliadis<nvass9573@gmx.com> >> =A0wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> =A0I am interested in buying a laptop from the >>> Dell Inspiron 15 series. Most of them are having >>> a wifi card branded as 'Dell Wireless 1397'. >>> Is there a driver for this? >>> >>> I would prefer a native driver, but success >>> stories using it with NDIS or other general >>> comments regarding the Dell Inspiron 15 series >>> are welcome. >>> >> >> Hello, >> >>> > From a quick google query this card should have a Broadcom BCM43xx >>> > chipset. >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=3Dbwi > > Thanks, but I've already done the quick google and > the not-so-quick google look. The results were not > that positive. Do you know by personal experience > that this card is working with bwi driver? > > Or at least with NDIS and amd64? > > Thanks, Nikos > No, i do not have this card but i trust the man pages :) I found this post : http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showproduct.php/product/4325/sl/i >0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01= ) Maybe what you find is based on experiences before May 16, 2009? Regards
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