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post #21 of 27
7/25/06 at 10:21pm
Well, the above mentioned MSI MP54G4 wireless PCI card arrived today. I replaced the Broadcom wireless in my emachines m6805 with this card, removed ndiswrapper (although it worked in Suse) and the laptop "saw" the new card, and let me configure it. I am using it right now to post this. Now, let me try Ubuntu. (Could never use it because ndiswrapper did not work well with Ubuntu.)
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post #22 of 27
8/15/06 at 10:23pm
My e1705 with ipw 3945 worked out of the box with Ubuntu/DapperDrake.
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post #23 of 27
8/16/06 at 4:11am
It's funny to me that people have so many problems with ndiswrapper. I've used it with every distro I have used (because current Broadcom support is TRULY a joke: I had to blacklist it from Kubuntu 6.06 LTS just to be able to use ndiswrapper). I've used ndiswrapper with my broadcom internal wireless under (K)ubuntu, SuSE, RHEL, Fedora, Mepis, Kanotix, Debian Sarge, Vector, Slack, and most recently Arch (though I'm now back to trusty Kubuntu which has been my favorite for almost 2 years now).

I have no dropped connection issues, everything works just fine.

-olly
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post #24 of 27
8/18/06 at 3:28am
I have the Dell inspiron E1405 with the 3946ABG and i installed Ubuntu and it worked out of the box perfectly. 100% signal, no drops, amazing speed (even faster then what windows gave me) and needed no configuration at all.
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post #25 of 27
8/18/06 at 4:15am
...to each his own i guess oly. to me both the gnome-network-manager and ndiswrapper mean unstable signal and crappy speeds... might be the hardware... who knows what Gigabyte/Atheros does with their junk
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post #26 of 27
11/9/06 at 2:58pm
ndiswrapper works like a champ with the old broadcom 802.11g card in my HP ZD7000. Great signal, up all the time.

What it does poorly is support encryption. I have not figured that one out yet. Luckily I like in the middle of nowhere, so I really don't have to worry about someone sniffing my wifi traffic and can run unencrypted.
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post #27 of 27
11/12/06 at 6:54pm
INTEL PRO WIRELESS 2200BG DOES NOT WORK OUT OF THE BOX!!!!!

I have tried ubuntu,kubuntu,xubuntu,pclinuxos,freespire,opensuse,mandriva,fedora and the only one that worked out of the box was Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop. Yeah it is $50 but for what it is that is a bargain!!!!

I would reccommend it, but i am a new to linux so i probally could of got it working but with some tweaking
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