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    Acer Aspire 5551-2298 Atheros Wireless Card

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by wpurcell, Oct 10, 2010.

  1. wpurcell

    wpurcell Newbie

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    Hello. I'm looking for a model number of an Atheros Wireless card for my laptop. Currently installed is the Broadcom variety, definitely NOT GNU/lLinux friendly. Any one have an idea what would fit in this unit? Acer Support is no help at all. "Don't change the hardware configuration" is all they'll say. :p Thanks for your time!
     
    wpurcell, Oct 10, 2010
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    cashwo Notebook Guru

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    AR5BXB63 mini pci fitted in my 5310 and 5050
     
    cashwo, Oct 10, 2010
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  3. weinter

    weinter /dev/null

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    I thought broadcom recently opensourced their drivers?
     
    weinter, Oct 11, 2010
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