Out of the Broadcom frying pan (DELL) to the fire (HP Envy)

[jd1008]

On 11/16/2014 02:53 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> On 16.11.2014, Gary Stainburn wrote:
>
>> Now I've got a newer Broadcom chipset on the replacement laptop and so far all
>> I can Google is people who've failed to get it working.
>> Can anyone point me to a post where it's worked.
> http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/SuSE/2014-06/msg01413.html
>
> Otherwise, just buy an external USB network adapter and save your
> time. Most of the common cheap sticks will do.
> If you want 2.4/5GHz, this one works:
>
> Bus 002 Device 009: ID 0b05:179d ASUSTek Computer, Inc. USB-N53
> idProduct 0x179d USB-N53 802.11abgn Network Adapter [Ralink RT3572]
>
Gary, did you take a look at driver for all all broadcom b43xxx  ???

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43