Broadcom WiFi -- for a public library -- in Fedora 13 maybe?

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Thu Jun 10 14:43:03 EDT 2010


On 06/10/2010 02:33 PM, Cole Tuininga wrote:
> Bill Sconce wrote:
>   
>> But then the zinger: of COURSE...they only use wireless.  And
>> of COURSE...the laptop has a Broadcom Wifi adapter.  And of course
>> it doesn't work.
>>
>>     
> My netbook reports having a "Network controller: Broadcom Corporation
> BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)".  It's currently running Ubuntu 10.04, with
> the proprietary broadcom drives (installed by the handy "Hardware
> Drivers" application).  I didn't have to do any work to get it going ...
> just installed the driver and all was seemingly well.
>
> This is not intended as a "my distro is better than <insert other
> distro>" - just a data point that it worked fine for me.
>
>   
Coreection my laptop is currently running 10.04 not 9.10 not that it matters

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