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One interesting piece of information is that the M...

Steve · 2009-07-08T00:16:42.514000

One interesting piece of information is that the M6300 appears to have been released with at least two different wireless cards. Some people have the M6300 Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG internal network card. I have a Dell card with the Broadcom BCM4328 chip set in it.

This may explain why some people have no issues and others (like me) end up running screaming into the night.

I have an M6300 as well, got it through the LTI pr...

J. · 2009-07-19T13:17:44.762000

I have an M6300 as well, got it through the LTI program (you sound like the same Steve Holden I know), and I ran into the same problem. The wireless card is an option, and I don't think Dell has any alternatives for you other than the one made by the dweebs at Widearsecom. Unfortunately, that means Ubuntu goes out the door, as I don't have days to waste chasing down solutions to what should be a very simple autoconfiguration issue.

@J: Yes, it was sourced through the program you me...

Steve · 2009-07-19T16:13:42.741000

@J: Yes, it was sourced through the program you mention. Do you know any distro that will run the wireless card out of of the box or nearly so? I am certainly not spending days on this, as I don't have the time.

I just wanted to report that in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmi...

Steve · 2010-02-12T15:14:20.922000

I just wanted to report that in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) I simply had to add the proprietary driver and wireless networking started straight away.

I don't like having to use proprietary stuff, but kudos to the Ubuntu developers for getting this to work so seamlessly despite BroadCom's unsupportive approach to open source.