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This is more broadcom's hostility to developers than Linux--the linux folks have done some very clever things to broadcom chips working at all. At http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 I found, Whether a PCI device is supported by the b43/b43legacy driver can be found out with the lspci command:
lspci -vnn | grep 14e4
The command will result in a string similiar to this example:
0001:01:01.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4318] (rev 02)
You should ignore anything, except the last part inside of the [ ] brackets. In the table below you can check whether your device is supported. A table that I can't paste follows (but could you please paste your output?). If your card is one of the "not supported," it would not be surprising for the system to hang. Some manufacturers think of the code to run their product as proprietary, while others have received "incentives" to make their product work in an "enhanced" manner only with a particular operating system. hawk, who refuses to buy things using parts from manufacturers like broadcom
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Well Doc,
No dice! At this point I have had it and given up on it and Linux. The computer is for the guest room, and being that I still have Windows XP on it that works fine, then so shall it be. I refuse to run between floors with it to have it on a wired router for updates and the like. Being the Linux side is secured by a password entry, no one can mess around with it without my knowledge. I just don't have the time to be messing around with an operating system like I have had to with Ubuntu, along with aggravation that it gave.
In IC XC,
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Everyone baptized into Christ should pass progressively through all the stages of Christ's own life, for in baptism he receives the power so to progress, and through the commandments he can discover and learn how to accomplish such progression. - Saint Gregory of Sinai
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It's not worth fighting with a wireless card that isn't well supported.
It seems to me that the one we put in my daughter's machine that just up and worked was an airlink for about $15.``
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Doc,
I am not about to put anything further into the laptop (it is at least four years old). It is basically for occasional use by guests, and something for me to fool around with. Being everything works well on the Windows XP side of it, I am leaving at that, and chalking this off to a lesson learned. I just do not have the time to be constantly tinkering with it.
In IC XC,
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Everyone baptized into Christ should pass progressively through all the stages of Christ's own life, for in baptism he receives the power so to progress, and through the commandments he can discover and learn how to accomplish such progression. - Saint Gregory of Sinai
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Oh, laptop.
No, don't; you'd need a usb one, anyway, and my understanding is that they're nightmares, too.
Actually, if I had the money, I'd go back to macs, but a $400 toshiba has the specs I need from a $1000 mac laptop, so I keep using unix. (But if the choice was windows on the $400, I'd probably pay the $1000 for the mac.)
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Dochawk: get the right bootloader, and you might be able to run MacOSX on that Toshiba.
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It takes more than just a bootloader, though. There is a project that pulls some tricks to run MacOS on PC hardware, but it has its limits (aside from the ongoing efforts of Apple's legal department  Besides, it can't run Hypercard any more! I'm going to need to emulate system 6 or 7 to run some old stacks that do things only hypercard can do . . . hawk
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Let's keep this thread on-topic. If you want to discuss "hackintoshes", then start a new thread.
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I was running Vista the other day and the CPU usage was locked at 100%...so I restarted to Ubuntu and it worked fine.
(I hope that's on topic, it's about linux. I don't have wi-fi)
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