Looking for BCM43228

Larry Finger Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net
Mon Aug 29 14:54:16 EDT 2011


On 08/29/2011 01:12 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> W dniu 29 sierpnia 2011 19:28 użytkownik Rafał Miłecki
> <zajec5 at gmail.com>  napisał:
>> I'm looking for 14e4:4359 card which is BCM43228 chipset based.
>>
>> According to Ubuntu [0] it can be found in Dell's notebooks:
>> 1) Dell Latitude E5420m
>> 2) Dell Latitude E5520m
>> 3) Dell Latitude E6220
>>
>> Ubuntu user Marc Legris provided a prove this card is really used by
>> Dell. See any of his launchpad reports for lspci [1] [2] [3].
>>
>> I've search on ebay and polish similar site, no results so far. Ofc
>> I'm not interested in buying the whole laptop just for WiFi card. I'll
>> be contacting Dell in next days to see if they can offer me a card.
>
> I've chatted with Dell employee and have received list of parts they
> have for E5520m and E6220. Some of them are not wifi cards at all,
> some are Intel's one.
>
> Cards that may be interesting to look at: DW1530, DW1501.

The DW1501 is an 802.11b/g/n card. From what I saw about the BCM43228, it is an 
802.11a/b/g/n model.

The site http://tinyurl.com/3mh8kk9 says that the DW1530 has 5 GHz capability. 
It is probably what you want, but Ebay doesn't have any.

Larry



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