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How in the heck to you deploy these things to client laptops? We have laptops that don't touch our network for months at a time sometimes - and users don't have admin rights to their machines, so them updating the drivers is not exactly easy.
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They can't compain now George...  toadlife | 11/11/06
They can't even complain it wasn't on the weekend  georgeou | 11/11/06
Nice one George! (nt)  bportlock | 11/11/06
huh?  richvball44 | 11/12/06
I think you're reading my post wrong  georgeou | 11/12/06
but  richvball44 | 11/13/06
He isn't in a sense  nucrash | 11/13/06
Haha, probably  georgeou | 11/13/06
Good One  D. T. Schmitz | 11/11/06
Question George  toadlife | 11/11/06
Good question  georgeou | 11/11/06
An idea I've been kicking around in my head...  toadlife | 11/12/06
If Broadcom posted WHQL drivers to Windows Update, maybe  georgeou | 11/12/06
Yep  toadlife | 11/12/06
Then we need to lay the heat on Broadcom  georgeou | 11/12/06
Especially since Ellch is pouring gasoline on this fire  GW Mahoney | 11/13/06
Oh Sure.. Blame the Blackhats  nucrash | 11/13/06
Wireless drivers contain a 4 part ID.  ShadeTree | 11/13/06
Why is it that Intel doesn't have this problem?  georgeou | 11/13/06
Rather obvious  GW Mahoney | 11/18/06
what about Vista?  diane wilson | 11/12/06
I'm not sure about the Vista drivers, those may or may not be ready  georgeou | 11/12/06
I am feeling left out  D. T. Schmitz | 11/12/06
dietrich...  toadlife | 11/12/06
*** Ndiswrapper Users Beware!! *** / AppArmor  D. T. Schmitz | 11/12/06
I don't think you can arap drivers in AppArmor  toadlife | 11/12/06
Yeah, kernelfun has a little love for Linux as well  georgeou | 11/12/06
ext2  D. T. Schmitz | 11/12/06
ext2  NonZealot | 11/12/06
Novell to pull Reiser4  nucrash | 11/13/06
Iam's Law  nucrash | 11/13/06
Don't Dietrich, here is one for you...  Scrat | 11/13/06
Hipshooters  D. T. Schmitz | 11/13/06
P.S.  D. T. Schmitz | 11/13/06
What, Me Worry?  D. T. Schmitz | 11/12/06
History lesson  bportlock | 11/12/06
Whatever  D. T. Schmitz | 11/12/06
....  richvball44 | 11/12/06
happy  D. T. Schmitz | 11/13/06
With 10.1's package management issues  Scrat | 11/13/06
Well  D. T. Schmitz | 11/13/06
I'm using 10.2 at the moment, but as it is beta  Scrat | 11/14/06
You are a brave soul  D. T. Schmitz | 11/14/06
George, this was a decent article.  Letophoro | 11/13/06
Thanks  georgeou | 11/13/06
Thanks, George!  bruce@... | 11/13/06
How do you get to Carnegie Hall?  D. T. Schmitz | 11/13/06
HP provides a file  fredbinkle@... | 11/13/06
Check your facts/dates  rmetzger@... | 11/13/06
What about internal radios?  salembruce2 | 11/13/06
Probably, check for the BCMWL5.SYS file  georgeou | 11/13/06
Maybe Windows Update already posted it.  salembruce2 | 11/13/06
Someone else mentioned that too  georgeou | 11/13/06
Driver Update  sbloom@... | 11/13/06
Automatic update doesn't work for my card  georgeou | 11/13/06
my XP won't load Linksys-N drivers  NiceIce | 12/11/06
Hardware modle  salembruce2 | 11/13/06
Ok, Broadcom has confirmed with me that it's only for HP  georgeou | 11/13/06
Another solution be to not use Wireless until proper driver is released  slim-01 | 11/13/06
Agreed  D. T. Schmitz | 11/13/06
I don't have those problems, so I just apply the patch  georgeou | 11/13/06
I found you always had to re-authenticate...  Logics | 11/13/06
I never had that problem, especially if it's on the same subnet  georgeou | 11/13/06
Are you on a domain?  slim-01 | 11/13/06
Oh, you're asking about that. The way to handle that is to use...  georgeou | 11/13/06
Do you mean to put a script in your startup folder  slim-01 | 11/14/06
No, talking about 'machine login'  georgeou | 11/14/06
IBM PC  caljen386@... | 11/13/06
Thanks, George... Linux warning??  heres_johnny | 11/13/06
Gateway 7426GX Laptop  tom@... | 11/13/06
Amazing...  suirauqa | 11/13/06
Just check the driver version  georgeou | 11/13/06
Already a problem with the Linksys driver, George  suirauqa | 11/22/06
My Dell 1450 no longer says it's a Dell but a Linksys  georgeou | 11/13/06
Isn't that nice...  DoktorWhat | 11/13/06
George, could you please elaborate...  suirauqa | 11/13/06
Don't use 40MHz mode, that's for N devices  georgeou | 11/13/06
Thanks very much, George  suirauqa | 11/13/06
why aren't my emoticons showing on...  suirauqa | 11/13/06
That one may not be supported by this server  georgeou | 11/13/06
what chipset  merlin6666 | 11/13/06
Just check BCMWL5.sys  georgeou | 11/13/06
BCMWL5.sys 4.100.15.5 available from Microsoft  saulius.markunas@... | 11/13/06
What kind of hardware do you have?  georgeou | 11/13/06
HP Compaq nx6125 notebook PC  saulius.markunas@... | 11/13/06
No problem, it figures you have an HP  georgeou | 11/14/06
Re: Broadcom Windows Driver exploit  Elijah5@... | 11/14/06
Follow the screen shots closely  georgeou | 11/14/06
Dell has "urgent" update for my laptop mini-card  tomcadman | 11/15/06
HP isn't much help  jsjag1 | 11/15/06
You may not have a broadcom chipset  georgeou | 11/16/06
vulnerable driver is present but is it really in use?  vmuller | 11/17/06
Updated driver & now wlan will not work  TechWantaBe | 08/05/07

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