Wireless adapter advice

[Joseph Sinclair]

The Broadcom 4318 has a severely reduced transmit power as a means of reducing power consumption.  What this means is that under Linux it's connection to the access point tends to be limited (NDISWrapper works, but it will still have issues, the kernel.org driver can only listen at this time).  The BCM driver team is working on a fix to the kernel.org driver to get the Tx power issue fixed, until then, you'll have to use NDISWrapper, and accept that connectivity won't be too reliable.

==Joseph++

Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> JT Moree wrote:
>> Mike Schwartz wrote:
>>
>>> * Chipset: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 802.11/g Wireless LAN
>>> * pciid: 14e4:4318
>> we dealt with that chipset at the last installfest.  It doesn't quite
>> work with the built in kernel driver yet.  Ndiswrapper is your only
>> solution for now.  Perhaps in a few months a native driver will work.
>>
> FWIW, to verify your chipset (they can and do vary w/in model/version numbers):
> # lspci -n -v
> will show you the pciid.