I got a System76 machine a year or<div>so ago, and as shipped the wireless</div><div>did not function. I believe I correctly</div><div>loaded drivers, including System76's</div><div>own batch of stuff. Nothing.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Eventually I tried Puppy Lunix, and </div><div>everything worked fine. For purposes</div><div>intended this was a fix, and the result</div><div>covered all my other needs too.</div><div><br></div><div>
None of the Remix versions worked.</div><div>I tried the latest version of Ubuntu -</div><div>10.10 - and still the wireless didn't </div><div>work. Eventually I tried Lubuntu, </div><div>another lite version. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Works fine. Comes up and shuts</div><div>down fast. Uses the standard Ubuntu</div><div>package libraries, so for all practical</div><div>purposes it's just Ubuntu.</div><div><br></div><div>Now, why is this? While it doesn't</div>
<div>rate right up there with life's biggest</div><div>problems, why must one go from </div><div>version to version to get the correct</div><div>support? i.e., if Puppy and Lubuntu</div><div>can come up with the proper drivers,</div>
<div>why not the main version - Ubuntu?</div><div>I'd of thought by now that wide ranging</div><div>hardware support would be seen as a</div><div>major competitive advantage with windoz.</div><div><br></div><div>OK, now on to Broadcom chips. The </div>
<div>latest version of Ubuntu supposedly has</div><div>support for some of those chips now.</div><div><br></div><div>I have an older Acer Aspire 5000 laptop,</div><div>and I loaded Ubuntu on it, and the </div><div>Broadcom drivers. Nothing. I can run the</div>
<div>wireless off a USB conntion and a Linksys</div><div>module. Works fine. But it's clunky to do</div><div>it that way. The machine is about 5 years</div><div>old now, so I guess that means support</div><div>will be long coming, if ever. Of course </div>
<div>windoz XP supported the wireless, but I</div><div>otherwise didn't want to suffer through </div><div>that.</div><div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div>
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