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    Danger Will Robinson the G-42-230US is not linux compatable.

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by cosmic ac, Aug 16, 2010.

  1. cosmic ac

    cosmic ac Notebook Consultant

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    I bought a HP G42-230US available at several retailers unseen is uses a broadcom card. HP claims all their laptops are SUSE compatable SUSE installed fine on an old hard drive but the wireless didn't work. I have an atheros card from an old laptop it works fine.
     
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  2. Thomas

    Thomas McLovin

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    Which Broadcom card?
     
    Thomas, Aug 16, 2010
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    f4ding Laptop Owner

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    It wouldn't work out of the box, if you configure it right, it will work.
     
    f4ding, Aug 16, 2010
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    cosmic ac Notebook Consultant

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    Broadcom 4313 I'm not going to fool with it I still have my old atheros card and I plan to buy a new dual channel card. The purpose of this post is warn people against buying it. The HP DV4 and DV5 AMD's use the atheros card. I saved $130 on this computer so I can splurge on the most advanced card.
     
    cosmic ac, Aug 23, 2010
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    directeuphorium Notebook Evangelist

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    the b43 legacy drivers will make that wifi card work.

    the drivers and the Step by step here:
    Missing your Wireless Drivers? | Oliver Mattos




    worked with no issue after a reboot.
     
    directeuphorium, Aug 25, 2010
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    I just installed an atheros AR 5B95-H card in the laptop I was surprised that the drivers installed automatically in windows. I don't know where the drivers came from the HP installed software or the card. I can now install linux in a dual boot with windows.
     
    cosmic ac, Sep 16, 2010
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    MS provides base driver support for Atheros and Broadcom cards, though you won't be able to use advanced driver features until you install the specific ones. Personally I've never had an issue with Broadcom cards with Ubuntu or SuSE, but Fedora is a different story. Unless Fedora has changed, Ndiswrapper was the only way to make them work and kernel upgrades broke driver support everytime.
     
    H.A.L. 9000, Sep 16, 2010
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    DiBosco, Sep 18, 2010
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