I am interested in knowing why you went with ndiswrapper. Could you please paste the output of lspic ? As far as I am aware (having a broadcom wireless card
I tried b43, b43legacy, then downloaded source from broadcom site, compiled wl, but driver failed to work (no wlan0). I tried fwcutter also. Finally shifted ndiswrapper, and it worked.
myself, and suffering through the pains of using various hacks to get it to work for almost a year), most of the 43xx cards are now natively supported using the wl module (and possibly the b43-openfwwf firmware package).
If you are interested in configuring your wifi card to run with native linux drivers, let me know the disto you are using and the output of lspci.
The distro is debian and chipset is 4312.
Yes, I would be interested in native support.
I need small help as regards LCD brightness on Laptops. Every time I start, debian, the brightness of laptop is changed. Is there any way, I can stop debian from interfering with brightness setting?
That's your power management setting. There are various places where this can be changed. Most commonly recommended if you are using GNOME: go to System->Preferences->Power Management. There you can customize screen brightness on AC as well as battery power.
The brightness is set to maximum :-(, during kernel loading... I work on CLI.
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