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http://www.broadcom.com/products/Wireless-LAN/802.11-Wireless-LAN-Solutions/BCM4312

Overall rating: 1.5 x 4

By Linux distribution:

• Gentoo Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 AuthenticAMD: 3.0 x 1
• Ubuntu 7.04 i386: 3.0 x 1
• Mandriva Linux 2008.0 i586: 3.0 x 1
• Fedora 7 x86_64: -3.0 x 1

Working PCI wireless cards on Gentoo Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 AuthenticAMD (kernel: 2.6.22-gentoo) by matysek (3):

With ndiswrapper

Working PCI wireless cards on Ubuntu 7.04 i386 (kernel: 2.6.20-16-core2-ck) by azrael (3):

kernel’s bcm43xx driver loses connection after some time so I’m using Windows’ drivers with ndiswrapper

Working PCI wireless cards on Mandriva Linux 2008.0 i586 (kernel: 2.6.22.9-laptop-1mdv) by fouckybzh (3):

need to download the following windows driver : bcmwl5.inf

And then install this new driver with ndiswrapper

Working PCI wireless cards on Fedora 7 x86_64 (kernel: 2.6.23.15-80.fc7) by gelu (-3):

I made some tries with drivers I found on the net, but I don’t remember now what drivers. I only know the driver can’t handle stop/start the wireless module, I had to boot in windows, start the wireless then boot linux again with wireless enabled.

• HP Compaq nx6325 (EY351EA#AKB)
• HP Compaq nx6325 (EY349EA#AKD)
• HP Pavilion dv9000 (RE383EA#ABF)
• HP Compaq nx6325 (GB943ES#ABB)

• ndiswrapper
• b43-pci-bridge