Sven Joachim wrote:
The laptop is an Acer TravelMate 2490 with a Broadcom chip:
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| 06:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
| Subsystem: AMBIT Microsystem Corp. TravelMate 2410
| Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
| Memory at d0002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
| Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
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Odd. Does it use that driver with both working and non-working
kernels?