New laptop derecommendations

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18 October 2018  at 19:59, Ian Bruntlett wrote:
Re: New laptop derecommendations (at least in part)

>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.

Once that is dine the BC chips work well