Broadcom problem fixed????

So, someone in another thread said that the latest versions of Xubuntu & Ubuntu fixed the driver issues with broadcom wireless cards.
Is this true?

 

My Dell A/B/G Broadcom card is working fine.

 

I've got Dell 1390 b/g any comments?

 

Ndiswrapper still for my Netgear 311v3. Broadcom sucks.

 

I believe it is fixed to a certain extent. My bcm4311 can now be enabled in the RDM. No need for ndiswrapper or any additional set-up!! Ofcourse it wont be completely fixed until Broadcom release some open source drivers.

The Dell 1390 uses a Broadcome chipset. Check the device manager to get the exact bcm model number for it.

 

My BCM4311 requires some extra work. But it's working fine now.

 

I've got a Dell Latitude D630 laptop, 2GHz, 2GB, 120GB 7200rpm HD, which has had this strange problem since day 1. I play a game call Second Life which does require a decent amount of resources, but this machine should be able to handle it. After about 10 min into the game it bogs down and the video frame rate drops. I keep thinking it was the video card/driver but then found a Tool that shows all kinds of Statistics.
One stat is the Ping Time to the server. I've got 3 other machines on this same network and on any one of them, including an IBM laptop of lesser specs, the normal ping time is around 100ms, give or take 20 or so at any given time.
What I notice on the Dell is the ping time goes up to 2000 - 3000ms or more after running the game for a short period of time. It does this consistently. I had disabled all power and hibernate options. I can either restart the game or reboot. Same results, runs for a bit, then the ping time to the SL server skyrockets. I ping other FQDNs and they seem OK.
None of the other 3 machines I have do this. The Dell has the Broadcom Netextreme 57xx Gigabit Controller. I get the same problem if wired or wireless (same controller). I've run all the controller tests and they passed.
What could this be???? I have installed the lastest drivers. I DO NOT want to reinstall my OS.

 

Please don't revive old threads.
Besides that, are you running linux?

 

sorry..in my frustration to find answers I didn't see the last post date of this thread...but not sure where to post this yet...and I have an open support call with Dell...I thought it was the video but now can go back to them with concrete info that it's the Broadcom
can you point me to a new thread of you have it handy...thanks if you can..np if you can't
regards,

 

I suggest starting a new one.
This is the linux forum, btw.

 

oh...running XP...

 

... lol... my penguins will take care of Windows!

 

Please start another thread in the appropriate forum.

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