Broadcom WiFi -- for a public library -- in Fedora 13 maybe?
Dan Jenkins
dan at rastech.com
Thu Jun 10 17:11:30 EDT 2010
On 6/10/2010 2:11 PM, Bill Sconce wrote:
> I got an e-mail a couple of weeks ago, from a public library in a
> small New Hampshire town, with the subject
>
> HELP SAVE US FROM MICROSOFT!
>
> (I am not making this up.) Such a plea caused me to do some
> perhaps-foolish things. I called the library; I volunteered to help
> them; I omitted to ask what hardware was involved.
>
> Does anyone have experience, either with this laptop (Dell Dimension
> E5500) or with getting a $#! Broadcom adapter to work (a 4318
> apparently) -- or experience which justifies a decision to just not
> do this?
I've had almost no trouble getting Broadcom to work with Ubuntu and
Mandriva distros. Just get the most current versions.
I haven't had as much luck with Fedora and Centos, though I didn't
really try to; just gave the folk network cards which did work and put
the Broadcoms in Windows laptops. (I had a surplus of laptops to
exchange components between, and an enormous time crunch to just get
things working.)
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