--- In [email protected], Scott <scot...@...> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 01:44:12PM -0000, Loyal Barber wrote:
> > --- In [email protected], "MuskokaCowboy"
> > <muskokacowboy@> wrote:
> > >
> > > My wireless card is a Broadcom 1390 wlan. I did a
> > > quick google but didn't find whether this card is supported out
of the
> > > box by Mint. Does anyone know or have a link to a Howto to get this
> > > card working? My wireless router is a Linksys with dd-wrt v24
> > > firmware. I will let you know how I am making out.
> > > 
> > > Thanks again,
> > > Dave
> > >
> > 
> > I have good news Dave.  My Dell has a Broadcom 1390 also.  When I 
> > installed Mint 6 it automatically recognized it.  I think after the
> > first boot it presented a button on the task bar regarding proprietary
> > drivers for both my video (nvidia) and the broadcom.  
> 
> 
> Ah, that should be good for Dave then. Do you know if they're using the
> fw-cutter or ndiswrapper?  Yes, I was very impressed with the way they
> handled NVidia, painless.  Though you don't even have to reboot--they
> lied.  :)  
> 
> 
> -- 
> Scott Robbins
> PGP keyID EB3467D6
> ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 )
> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6
> 
> Angel: I'm weak. I've never been anything else. I wanted to lose 
> myself in you. I know it will cost me my soul, and part of me 
> didn't care. It's not the demon in me that needs killing, Buffy, 
> it's the man.
>

I believe they are using the cutter as I thought I saw it during the
"details" portion of the software install.  Does not matter too
much to me as it simply works and works well.  I would guess that
most newbies just want stuff to work and can get to "the best way"
at some time when they have a bunch of extra time.

Loyal


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