It is possible that I will be able to find a compatible wireless card in
this country; as I see from table on
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43, a supported substitute
would be BCM4318. The merchant from whom I bought the machine has offered
to replace my BCM4322 for free. If I can't find one here, I see
that "refurbished" ones can be had on ebay for about $10.
I have also found a driver for the machine's netword card (RTL8111/8168B
PCI Express) from the RealTek site. This is a source file, so suitable
for both 32 and 64byte systems. I'll compile it tomorrow.
I begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
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At 16:21:34 on Tuesday Tuesday 06 October 2009, Matthias Titeux
As a matter of good citizenship, I should probably mention that the Broadcom bcm4322 wireless card, which is built in to the Vostro 15 notebook machine does not appear in the list of cards supported by the NDISWrapper either, a remarkable fact for a machine intended to be loaded with Linux.
At this point, I think the simplest way to gain wireless capability would be to buy an external USB wireless dongle, a supported one, of course (the machine hasn't support for PCMCIA cards).
-- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel
Another possibility is (If you can open the case) to change the miniPCIe wifi card by a supported model. They are pretty cheap on ebay. People who wanted a small Hackintosh used to do that on some netbook with wifi card not supported by Mac OS X. if possible, it will be a more convenient way to have wifi than a USB dongle.
Hope it helps.
That's an idea all right, but it won't help with the time problem. It's worth looking into for afterward. Although I hadn't thought of ebay, the idea of replacing the card had crossed my mind; I didn't know if the WiFi card was actually a replaceable element, or if it was just some circuitry on the motherboard, thanks for telling me that. Given the distance (in time-space), it might be an equally good idea to buy a supported card new, if I can find out whether it is available here and who imports them -- if anybosy. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel ------------------------------------------------------- -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org