Re: [PLUG] Inspiron 8600 and true mobile 1400

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 00:05, Brian Vagnoni <bvagnoni@v-system.net> wrote:

----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Keyes
> What chipset does the 1400 use?

----- Original Message -----

Chipset: Broadcom BCM4309 (rev 02)

Those Broadcom drivers, in my previous post, won't work with the BCM4309, sorry. You are stuck with ndiswrapper.

Here is an Opensuse tutorial. Google is your best friend when it comes to this stuff.

http://www.novell.com/communities/node/3612/installing-dell-truemobile-1400-wireless-card-opensuse-102

Good luck

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2009 23:59:35 -0400
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Inspiron 8600 and true mobile
1400

> What chipset does the 1400 use? I've managed to the the 1300 (Inspiron
> 8600)
> working. With my setup, Ubuntu's hardware drivers listed the card and
> through that I was able to get it working (Ubuntu 9.10 beta, similar
> in
> recent older versions).
>
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 23:49, Carl Johnson
> <cjohnson19791979@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > anyone have experience with this wireless card and getting it
> working at
> > all under any distro? i've tried ubuntu and fedora; no go. google
> hasn't
> > really much much help either.
> >
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