Details

ManufacturerHewlett-Packard (by Broadcom)
ModelBCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller
Buspci
TypeNetwork controller
Id14e4
Info24318
Info3103c
Info41355

Ratings

Overall rating: 3.5 x 4

By Linux distribution:

  • Ubuntu 7.04 i386: 3.0 x 1
  • Ubuntu 7.04 x86_64: 3.0 x 1
  • openSUSE 10.2 X86-64: 3.0 x 1
  • Mandriva Linux 2008.1 i586: 5.0 x 1

Comments

Working PCI wireless cards on Ubuntu 7.04 x86_64 (kernel: 2.6.20-16-generic) by foxteck (3):

Works installing firmware or ndiswrapper

Working PCI wireless cards on Ubuntu 7.04 i386 (kernel: 2.6.20-16-generic) by bytesmythe (3):

Had to use ndiswrapper

Working PCI wireless cards on openSUSE 10.2 X86-64 (kernel: 2.6.18.8-0.5-default) by embedded (3):

Ndis wrapper using broadcom.inf driver.

Working PCI wireless cards on Mandriva Linux 2008.1 i586 (kernel: 2.6.24.7-desktop586-2mnb) by Ken (5):

It died some months ago (Linux and Windows) so no current info, at one time it was working with ndiswrapper and I believe a more native driver.

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