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differences in the entry: vendor
Broadcom
differences in the entry: model name
BCM4311 (rev 02)
differences in the entry: possible other names of the device
103c:1375 Hewlett-Packard Company Device
differences in the entry: VendorID:ProductID code of the device
14e4:4311
differences in the entry: year of commercialization
not-specified
differences in the entry: interface
PCI-E
differences in the entry: GNU/Linux distribution used for the test
gnewsense_2_3 , trisquel_3_5 , trisquel_4_0
differences in the entry: tested with the following kernel libre
2.6.31-22-generic
differences in the entry: does it work with free software?
no
differences in the entry: free driver used
differences in the entry: Description
[h1]Configuration[/h1]
[p]The wifi card does not work. Pay attention to the revision number of the wifi card. The revision 02 does not work while the revision 01 of the same model should work (as indicated in [a]http://leorockway.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/free-broadcom/ | this[/a] tutorial).[/p]
[a]http://www.h-node.org/meet/user/en/rsandu[/a]: I may confirm that revision 01 do work out of the box (on a Dell Inspiron 1520 PP22L). Test was made on Trisquel 5.0 (LiveCD), kernel 2.6.38-11-generic:
[code]0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN [14e4:4311] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card [1028:0007]
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
Kernel modules: ssb
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