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

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

Dan Jenkins <dan at rastech.com> writes:
>
> 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.)

I just had a thought along those lines, myself: depending on how much
Bill's time is worth to him, might it actually make sense to just
donate the $10-per ($20 total?) required to buy Linux-compatible WiFi
adaptors?

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