New laptop derecommendations

[Ian Bruntlett]

Hi Wade,

On Thu, 18 Oct 2018 at 19:50, Wade Smart <wadesmart at gmail.com> wrote:

> A company I was contract to do work for ordered 15 new ThinkPads.
> They have used them for a long time. This last order came with
> broadcom chips. Ive never had a ThinkPad with broadcom so I dont
> know if it was a special order thing or a pricing thing. We are in the
> process of sending them all back.
>

I once worked old Dell laptop with a broadcom chip in it. I installed Linux
using an Ethernet connection and I had to install the package
"firmware-b43-installer" to get WiFi networking.

I think I found that out from a combination of pouring through the output
of dmesg and searching for potential pacakges via Synaptic Package Manager.

HTH,


Ian

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