[PLUG-TALK] Dell Latitude 2100

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 29 Sep 2017, Aaron Burt wrote:

> Some models of the 2100 actually shipped with Ubuntu factory-installed.

Aaron,

   I don't know when the one I have was built, but the spec sheet indicates
they were available with cases of different colors, too.

> Most distros will easily install the correct driver, and often you don't
> even need a proprietary driver, just the device firmware, which you can
> install from a distro package as well.

   Running lspci shows two Broadband communication controllers:

09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5764M Gigabit
Ethernet PCIe (rev 10)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY
(rev 01)

The Ethernet one works fine so I expected the 802.11b/g one to also work. It
doesn't. If I correctly recall the situation the old ThinkPad E600 (or was
that 600E) also needed a wifi radio transplant to work.

   Slackware tends to have good support for devices and it's reasonable to
assume the 2100's radio is kaput.

Rich