<div dir="ltr">Hi Wade,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, 18 Oct 2018 at 19:50, Wade Smart <<a href="mailto:wadesmart@gmail.com">wadesmart@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">A company I was contract to do work for ordered 15 new ThinkPads.<br>
They have used them for a long time. This last order came with<br>
broadcom chips. Ive never had a ThinkPad with broadcom so I dont<br>
know if it was a special order thing or a pricing thing. We are in the<br>
process of sending them all back.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.<br></div><div><br></div><div>HTH,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Ian</div><div><br></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>-- ACCU - Professionalism in programming - <a href="http://www.accu.org" target="_blank">http://www.accu.org</a><br></div>-- My writing - <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/</a><br><div>-- Free Software page - <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/home/free-software" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/home/free-software</a><br></div><br> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>