Replacing Broadcom miniPCI with Atheros

[Jean-Rene Cormier]

On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 12:27, Brian Stretch wrote:
> Yes, but it only works on 32-bit Linux, as this thread explains:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=4103096&forum_id=36471
> 
> I want to run 64-bit Fedora Core on my Athlon 64 notebook. 
> 
> Alan Cox pointed me to where the problem lies (thanks Alan!).  Like IBM,
> HP has a whitelist of approved wireless miniPCI cards in their BIOS.  Since
> the Atheros card is not on the whitelist and Broadcom's rectal-cranial
> inversion shows no sign of correcting, 64-bit Linux users are currently SOL. 
> I've got one of HP's research techs looking into this but I'm not very
> hopeful.  It's too bad, under Windows the wireless range is very impressive
> thanks to the two antenna panels integrated behind the screen.  Does
> anyone know whether eMachines has a similar whitelist in their Athlon 64
> notebooks?  What about ASUS and Acer, etc?  

Dell must have the same kind of whitelist too because I tried putting a
Prism54-based Mini-PCI card in my Laptop and it wouldn't work. I guess
I'll have to wait a while for drivers for the Intel PRO Wireless 54Mbps
cards.

Jean-Rene Cormier