Great news last week, when canonical published the new alpha release of Ubuntu Gutsy.

The bcm43xx drivers will be in the restricted manager repositories.
It means no more ndiswrapper, windows drivers,…
We’ll have to wait October 18th.

I’ve seen, thanks to Google Analytics, that a lot of visitors of my blog are looking desperately for the windows XP wireless drivers for their dv2315nr.

Sadly HP does not provide XP drivers for this laptop, or you have to install a software that will do everything for you (beurk!!!).
But they are using the same wireless card than Dell (It even appears as a dell wireless 1390 wlan mini-card in Linux), and they’re providing XP drivers!!!
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The sound in the HP dv 2000 is a little tricky with Ubuntu/Linux.

The dv2315nr is equipped with a NVidia sound chipset.
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