On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:50:27 -0400
Bill Sconce sco...@in-spec-inc.com wrote:
a whole stream of replies -- and most significantly,
an answer to the last question. (I.e., don't give up.)
I'm glad I (we) didn't. Victory!
Thanks to everyone who responded. I'll do some more reading
and
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Bill Sconce sco...@in-spec-inc.com wrote:
We look like
heros. Heck, we ARE heros...
Mal: Well, look at this! Appears we got here just in the nick of time.
What does that make us?
Zoe: Big damn heroes, sir!
Mal: Ain't we just?
Good job, Bill!
P.S. There
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Dan Jenkins d...@rastech.com wrote:
We don't have to wear spandex, do we??
I, for one, definitely do not look good in spandex.
But a cape might be cool.
No capes! Thunderhead,
On 6/11/2010 4:34 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
It's *us*. *We're* the Software Freedom Squad.
Since when?
Since *now*.
We don't have to wear spandex, do we??
I, for one, definitely do not look good in spandex.
But a cape might be cool.
My business partner, Keith, actually would look
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Dan Jenkins d...@rastech.com wrote:
We don't have to wear spandex, do we??
I, for one, definitely do not look good in spandex.
But a cape might be cool.
No capes! Thunderhead, Stratogale, the list goes on...
-- Ben
David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org writes:
On 06/10/2010 05:32 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
Dan Jenkins d...@rastech.com writes:
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
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
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Bill Sconce sco...@in-spec-inc.com wrote:
After an initial visit, I burned a Fedora 13 live CD for them
to try, took it over to the library, booted it and showed it off.
All OK.
But then the zinger: of COURSE...they only use wireless. And
of COURSE...the
Bill Sconce wrote:
But then the zinger: of COURSE...they only use wireless. And
of COURSE...the laptop has a Broadcom Wifi adapter. And of course
it doesn't work.
My netbook reports having a Network controller: Broadcom Corporation
BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01). It's currently running Ubuntu
On 06/10/2010 02:30 PM, Alan Johnson wrote:
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Bill Sconce sco...@in-spec-inc.com
mailto:sco...@in-spec-inc.com wrote:
After an initial visit, I burned a Fedora 13 live CD for them
to try, took it over to the library, booted it and showed it off.
All
On 06/10/2010 02:33 PM, Cole Tuininga wrote:
Bill Sconce wrote:
But then the zinger: of COURSE...they only use wireless. And
of COURSE...the laptop has a Broadcom Wifi adapter. And of course
it doesn't work.
My netbook reports having a Network controller: Broadcom Corporation
Google results seem to suggest for Fedora that you have 2 options:
* Get the proprietary Broadcom firmware and use the fw-cutter tool to
extract the firmware and drop it in /lib/firmware
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#device_firmware_installation
* Use the open rewrite/replacement
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:11:01 -0400
Bill Sconce sco...@in-spec-inc.com wrote:
Does anyone have experience, either with this laptop (Dell
Dimension E5500) or with getting a $#! Broadcom adapter to work
(a 4318 apparently)
Wow. Before I could finish typing this after interruption I see
On 06/10/2010 02:35 PM, kenta wrote:
Why not use fwcutter? I used it recently with Ubuntu 10 .04 on an
aging Dell laptop (I don't remember the model, but it was about an 2
inch thick brick of a laptop). It too had a Broadcomm chip based
wireless adapter and after an apt-get and hitting OK
On 06/10/2010 02:11 PM, Bill Sconce wrote:
(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.
No good deed goes unpunished.
Does anyone have experience, either
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:11:01 -0400
Bill Sconce sco...@in-spec-inc.com wrote:
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?
Look at
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:50:27 -0400
Bill Sconce sco...@in-spec-inc.com wrote:
The library shall have its laptops
FREE OF MICROSOFT after all!
More later...
Of course you could go crazy and turn them into thin clients. You have
seen how well that works as I recall in an educational
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Shawn O'Shea sh...@eth0.net wrote:
Google results seem to suggest for Fedora that you have 2 options:
* Get the proprietary Broadcom firmware and use the fw-cutter tool to
extract the firmware and drop it in /lib/firmware
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;
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
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Ed lawson elaw...@grizzy.com wrote:
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:50:27 -0400
Bill Sconce sco...@in-spec-inc.com wrote:
The library shall have its laptops
FREE OF MICROSOFT after all!
More later...
Of course you could go crazy and turn them into thin clients.
On 06/10/2010 05:32 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
Dan Jenkins d...@rastech.com writes:
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
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