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

David Rysdam david at rysdam.org
Thu Jun 10 21:57:42 EDT 2010


On 06/10/2010 05:32 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
> Dan Jenkins <dan at rastech.com> writes:
>> 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?

That was my very first thought as well.  I was even going to ask what
library it was.  If it's one of the ones I visit, I'd be willing to chip
in (or outright pay for it) too.

If there are a lot of libraries being infected with Micros~1
"generosity" someone should form a roving band of Software Freedom
Fighters...




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