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; I volunteered to help > them; I omitted to ask what hardware was involved. > > 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?
I've had almost no trouble getting Broadcom to work with Ubuntu and Mandriva distros. Just get the most current versions. 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 exchange components between, and an enormous time crunch to just get things working.) _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/