[conspire] (forw) Re: (forw) Re: Linux install at CABAL meeting

[Rick Moen]

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Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 00:21:40 -0800
From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
To: John Dwyer <juanito101 at gmail.com>
Cc: installers at linuxmafia.com
Subject: Re: [conspire] (forw) Re: Linux install at CABAL meeting
Reply-To: installers at linuxmafia.com

I wrote:

> Instead of trying the default Broadcom-STA driver you mentioned -- the
> one whose module name is 'wl', let's try the b43 driver, which in my
> experience is much more reliable.  As you will see in these
> instructions, you also end up installing a package called
> 'linux-firmware-nonfree', which is a set of binary-only firmware BLOBs
> to initialise a broad range of hardware (sets of low-level instructions 
> to enable those hardwre devices at power-on/startup time).
> 
> I'm betting that will work and _not_ disable your ethernet.

And I forgot the link, because I suck.
http://linuxg.net/how-to-fix-broadcom-bcm4311-wireless-driver-on-ubuntu-and-linux-mint/

Sorry about that.

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