Network Connection Problem

[tsu2]

@tsu2

Just a quick comment on this thread re the OP NIC (43b1) and not the card described in the two posts immediately preceding this.

I just moved my drives from my failed laptop hardware to this HP ENVY 17, and based on what I’ve seen this Wireless chipset is likely going to be mainstream, it would be a crying shame if kernel mode drivers aren’t written for Linux since it looks like a common design architecture exists pairing current Intel Haskwell architecture with this wireless chip.

In the meantime, aside from considering USB Wireless NICs, in the comment section someone reports successfully building an NDIS wrapper driver
networking - Is there a way to get Broadcom 802.11ac WiFi (43b1) working on Ubuntu 12.10? - Ask Ubuntu

I don’t know if the performance is severely degraded, missing features, or even if the author of that comment really did what he claims.

TSU

Serves me right for not reading the stickies for this Forum.
Looks lik lwfinger has already done some good work on this which I will be following up on
http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/wireless/484106-broadcom-firmware-needed-b43-but-i-have-no-network-easierwork-around.html

TSU