Details

ManufacturerHewlett-Packard (by Broadcom)
ModelMX6125
Buspci
TypeNetwork controller
Id14e4
Info24318
Info3103c
Info41356

Ratings

Overall rating: 2.9 x 20

By Linux distribution:

  • Mandriva Linux 2007.1 i586: 3.0 x 1
  • Ubuntu 6.06.1 i386: 3.0 x 1
  • Debian 4.0 i386: 3.0 x 1
  • Debian lenny/sid i386: 3.0 x 1
  • Mandriva Linux 2007.1 i586: 5.0 x 1
  • Debian lenny/sid i386: 3.0 x 1
  • Mandriva Linux 2008.0 i586: 5.0 x 1
  • Debian lenny/sid i386: 5.0 x 1
  • Ubuntu 8.04 i386: 3.0 x 1
  • Gentoo Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 AuthenticAMD: -3.0 x 1
  • Gentoo Gentoo Base System release 1.12.11.1 GenuineIntel: 3.0 x 1
  • openSUSE 10.3 X86-64: -3.0 x 1
  • Ubuntu 8.04 x86_64: 3.0 x 1
  • Fedora 8 x86_64: 3.0 x 1
  • Gentoo Gentoo Base System release 1.12.11.1 AuthenticAMD: 5.0 x 1
  • Ubuntu 8.04 i386: 3.0 x 1
  • Debian lenny/sid i386: 3.0 x 1
  • Mandriva Linux 2009.0 i586: 3.0 x 1
  • Fedora 11 i386: 3.0 x 1
  • Ubuntu 10.04 i386: 5.0 x 1

Comments

Working PCI wireless cards on Ubuntu 6.06.1 i386 (kernel: 2.6.15-23-386) by vn_popov (3):

Works with NDIS driver (ndiswrapper)
Needs to blacklist bcm43XX module

Working PCI wireless cards on Debian 4.0 i386 (kernel: 2.6.22.1) by dbigot (3):

With NDISWrapper module – OK
With BCM43xx module – not functionnal (some communications will not work very good …. 20% ping …) – but mode monitor is OK

Working PCI wireless cards on Debian lenny/sid i386 (kernel: 2.6.22.9-cfs-v22) by andante (3):

Needs ndiswrapper to work. After setting that up it works fine. BCM43xx does not support this card properly (BCM4318). b43 from wireless-2.6 dev branch supports this card, but doesn’t get the best of speeds.

Working PCI wireless cards on Ubuntu 8.04 i386 (kernel: 2.6.24-2-generic) by caravena (3):

Work with module [0]“b43”.

  • Mofifications:

o Download and install firmware closed of Broadcom.

References:
[0] http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

Working PCI wireless cards on Ubuntu 8.04 x86_64 (kernel: 2.6.24-10-generic) by samuellb (3):

Connection “freezes” working for a couple of seconds sometimes when downloading large files.

A proprietary firmware has to be downloaded.

Working PCI wireless cards on Debian lenny/sid i386 (kernel: 2.6.26-1-486) by delta48 (3):

Install b43-fwcutter

Working PCI wireless cards on Mandriva Linux 2009.0 i586 (kernel: 2.6.27.4-desktop-2mnb) by ludochamonix (3):

avec ndiswrapper

Working PCI wireless cards on Ubuntu 8.04 i386 (kernel: 2.6.24-21-generic) by nickoe (3):

BCM4318 Works with restricted drivers

Working PCI wireless cards on Fedora 11 i386 (kernel: 2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586) by vnk (3):

Here is the only way I found to make this device work:

http://f7.kamisamanou.net/BCM4318F10.pdf

It has been configured on Fedora10 using above instructions, survived several kernel updates and F10—>F11 upgrade install – never had to change anything.

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