[PLUG-TALK] Dell Latitude 2100

[John Jason Jordan]

On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 14:58:26 -0700
Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net> dijo:

>Rich>    Interesting. It appears that there is a Broadcome wifi 802.11
>Rich> b/g radio, but ifconfig does not display it, even when asked
>Rich> explicitly for it.
>
>You need their proprietary driver.  You could consider taking it to a
>safe place and lighting it on fire.  That's a joke.  Broadcom wifi--.

My first Linux laptop had a Broadcom wifi chip. That was over ten years
ago, and I quickly learned why Linux people hate Broadcom. It took a
lot of help from the list and the Clinics because I knew next to
nothing back then, but eventually I got it working with ndiswrapper to
force the Windows driver to play nice in Linux. I don't know if
ndiswrapper is even still around, but since everything else has failed
for you maybe it's worth a google or two.