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

Nikos Vassiliadis nvass9573 at gmx.com
Wed Mar 10 10:35:13 UTC 2010


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


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