Good to hear. I have one unit that<div>needed a bcm43 driver - I only got it</div><div>to work with one version of Kubuntu.</div><div>Feisty-something. </div><div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Jonathan Jesse <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jjesse@gmail.com">jjesse@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<p>Broadcom works out of the box on Ubuntu 10.10 btw </p><div><div></div><div class="h5">
<div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 9, 2010 11:41 PM, "Adam Tauno Williams" <<a href="mailto:awilliam@whitemice.org" target="_blank">awilliam@whitemice.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 17:00 -0400, Tim Schmidt wrote: <br>
>> These days, nearly everything likely to be found in a laptop or<br>>> desktop is well supported. <br>> <br>> +1<br>> <br>> Choosing a system is pretty easy these days.<br>> <br>> 1.) Nvidia or Intel GPU<br>
> 2.) Intel wireless<br>> <br>> Those two and you should be pretty much set.<br>> <br>> Everything on my HP DV-3085DX laptop "just works". Including<br>> hibernation and the multimedia touch panel<br>
> (mute/next/previous/pause/play/stop/volume). This laptop + openSUSE<br>> 11.3 w/GNOME and you are rolling.<br>> <br>> If someone wants a "LINUX system" and they aren't comfortable choosing<br>
> hardware - ask someone for help.<br>> <br>>> Even Broadcom - the last holdout in wireless chipsets has offered <br>>> up an open source driver.<br>> <br>> I don't know if this has really born fruit yet - until it is integrated<br>
> into distributions it doesn't do the end user much good.<br>> -- <br>> Adam Tauno Williams <<a href="mailto:awilliam@whitemice.org" target="_blank">awilliam@whitemice.org</a>> LPIC-1, Novell CLA<br>> <<a href="http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com" target="_blank">http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com</a>><br>
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