Un-Plugged Rant: GNU/Linux & Wireless | Linux Today

Un-Plugged Rant: GNU/Linux & Wireless

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 25, 2007

[ Thanks to D.C.
Parris
for this link. ]

“I don’t get it. I had a BCM38xx wireless LAN card. I bought it
because I saw decent reviews on getting it working under GNU/Linux.
Well, let’s just say it was fun, but not real fun, and leave it at
that, eh? The odd thing was, I was using Ubuntu on the laptop at
that point, and PCLinuxOS auto-detected and configured the wireless
PCI version I bought for one of the desktops.Go figure.

“So I went shopping. This time I set out to find a card with a
libre driver that would work with GNU/Linux…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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