is there a native driver for 'Dell Wireless 1397'?

[George Liaskos]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass9573 at gmx.com> wrote:
> On 3/10/2010 12:13 PM, George Liaskos wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Nikos Vassiliadis<nvass9573 at gmx.com>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>  I am interested in buying a laptop from the
>>> Dell Inspiron 15 series. Most of them are having
>>> a wifi card branded as 'Dell Wireless 1397'.
>>> Is there a driver for this?
>>>
>>> I would prefer a native driver, but success
>>> stories using it with NDIS or other general
>>> comments regarding the Dell Inspiron 15 series
>>> are welcome.
>>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>>> > From a quick google query this card should have a Broadcom BCM43xx
>>> > chipset.
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bwi
>
> Thanks, but I've already done the quick google and
> the not-so-quick google look. The results were not
> that positive. Do you know by personal experience
> that this card is working with bwi driver?
>
> Or at least with NDIS and amd64?
>
> Thanks, Nikos
>

No, i do not have this card but i trust the man pages :)

I found this post :
http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showproduct.php/product/4325/sl/i

>0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)

Maybe what you find is based on experiences before May 16, 2009?

Regards