<div dir="ltr">regarding the modem itself - you're preaching to the choir. this is a work-issued laptop, and i cannot control or change what goes into it.<br><br>E<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Don Marti <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dmarti@zgp.org">dmarti@zgp.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">begin Rick Moen quotation of Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 01:17:12AM -0800:<br>
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> Going all the way back to the winmodem misadventure, I can't help<br>
> noticing that a lot of Linux users misdefine the necessary and logical<br>
> question as 'How do I make Linux support all the components currently in<br>
> my machine?', when a better question is 'What's the best tradeoff of<br>
> time versus money that makes me able to get desired functionality?'<br>
<br>
</div>Since Broadcom is finally getting off the proprietary<br>
drivers and high on _life_ instead, one option might<br>
be to find out if your distribution has a repository<br>
of current upstream kernels, and try to install<br>
and boot one of them. You could also do something<br>
like this:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.toddsmith.org/wordpress/server-technology/howto-compile-an-upstream-kernel-the-debian-ubuntu-way/" target="_blank">http://www.toddsmith.org/wordpress/server-technology/howto-compile-an-upstream-kernel-the-debian-ubuntu-way/</a><br>
<br>
(I agree with Rick that unless you want to make a job<br>
or serious hobby out of device driver development,<br>
careful shopping is usually the best way to get a<br>
working Linux system.)<br>
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Don Marti<br>
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<a href="mailto:dmarti@zgp.org">dmarti@zgp.org</a><br>
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