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Re: [PLUG] Dell really gets Linux - at last
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Edmond Rodriguez wrote:
> Are you saying the Broadcom chips are no good because of lack of
> Linux support, or the hardware is no good? Mine (on an HP) seems to
> work perfectly on the Windows side of things. Linux is another
> story, and I mostly stopped trying to get Linux drivers to work for
> it, after learning ndiswrapper.
>
> I've been using my broadcom with ndiswrapper on Linux for years
> reliably. I have some quirks starting the wpa_supplicant, but once
> I get it going, it is very stable and I wonder if wpa_supplicant has
> much to do with the hardware anyway. I think most of the issues I
> have to get it started are related to software.
>
Last September I bought a HP laptop from failing Circuit City which had
a wireless chip that was not in the default Debian 2.6.* kernel. I
found the driver included in the 2.7.5 kernel so I just used make-kpkg
to compile a custom kernel just like we did in the beginning.
I have found that none of the major manufacturers really want to support
Linux or the BSD communities. All of them frequently include hardware
that is not supported by the distributions, but may be a part of the
latest linux kernel source. One of the advantages of Linux is that you
can compile and configure your kernel to your own liking like disabling
the stupid touchpad mouse that is always getting in the way.
With a custom kernel you do not need to worry about distribution kernel
updates.
> ndiswrapper breaks sometimes as kernels get updated, but if that
> concern were addressed, it would be fine. Ndiswrapper seems to
> generate lots of controversy in the Linux world.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>
>
>> But aside from using the cheap-as-dirt-and-about-as-good Broadcom
>> networking chips all over the place, most Dell hardware that I run
>> into has worked really well.
>>
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