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On 01/28/2011 04:02 PM, Angelo McComis wrote:
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class="gmail_quote">Lots of funny stuff w/Ubuntu. Main reason I use
Ubuntu is that it will<br>
run the Broadcom wireless out of the box on my Dell Inspiron 1520<br>
laptop. I found .dll's, wrappers, and etc while looking at the innerds<br>
with less. Will change to another OS after I have a better understanding<br>
of the Linux Command Line.<br>
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Tom<br>
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<div>This is funny, as that's the exact reason I don't run Ubuntu...
it doesn't like the built-in wireless card on my Dell D620, which uses
the "b43" driver. It does, however have enough smarts to tell you so
and where to go get the right driver, how to build it for the kernel,
etc.</div>
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<div>But one day it prompted me to run the updater, and after it
rebooted on to the new kernel, it no longer was active on the wireless
network. I needed to rebuild the b43 driver against the new kernel.
That slowed me down for a little bit. Fortunately it happened while I
was docked, because I hadn't kept the source for the driver that time
and needed to go find it again.</div>
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<div>Then a few weeks later, it wanted to run the updater again, and
after it rebooted, it no longer liked my display. At all. Built in
Intel M915 graphics is hardly something I would call obscure, so the
lack of support (or losing it due to lack of proper regression testing)
is pretty unforgivable.</div>
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<div>In the end, I reformatted and went with openSuSE 11.3 on that
box. Everything works out of the box, and updates have caused zero
pain. I'm also ok with Fedora too, but I already had a running Fedora
14 instance, so this box was going to be Ubuntu. Maybe next time.</div>
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I have not updated to the newest version of Ubuntu for the reasons you
stated. It would be good to have an extra HDD to Load a newer version
on just to see what works and what doesn't. I am not good enough on the
command line yet to deal w/ compiling, etc. That D620 is a really
robust laptop. I would rather have one than the Inspiron 1520.<br>
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Tom<br>
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