[PLUG-TALK] Dell Latitude 2100

[Tomas Kuchta]

Or you could replace the broadcom WiFi card in the laptop with cheap/used
Intel WiFi card and safe yourself all that the trouble.

Tomas

On Sep 28, 2017 4:08 PM, "John Jason Jordan" <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:

> 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.
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