Dan Jenkins <d...@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? -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))." _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/