I have a Broadcom wifi adapter in my old laptop and I have successfully install LXLE. You may want to give that distro a look. http://lxle.net/ Andrew
>>> Brian Barber <[email protected]> 2014-07-22 1:59 PM >>> Good afternoon, everyone. I have an older, not-exactly stock Dell Inspiron 1501 (AMD 64-bit CPU, 4G RAM and a 120G SSD) that I want to use for general purpose computing and for ingesting a bunch of video from older VHS and MiniDV tapes. I have a USB RCA adapter and a FireWire PCExpress card to help with this. Believe it or not, I cannot successfully install Ubuntu (various versions) on it. It not only does not recognize the Broadcom wifi adapter, it has some deep-seated hatred of it. I get kernel panics whenever the OS tries to load modules for it, and I have made numerous attempts to fix this with no joy. Google inspiron 1501linux wireless and see that I'm not alone (and I'm a pretty seasoned Linux guy.) I must have tried everything suggested in the first five pages of search results. Is there anyone on the list who can suggest a good disto to try anew. I have used Debian-based distros for a loooong time, but I am wide open to trying anything Debian-based, or not. The laptop is bare metal now. Perhaps there is something nifty out there that is worth a shot. BTW, I would rather not go the Slackware/Gentoo BIY route. Thanks, Brian _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list [email protected] http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list [email protected] http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux
