XPost: alt.linux, comp.os.linux.hardware, comp.os.linux.portable   
   From: user@example.net   
      
   On 28/07/2024 02.04, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:   
   > In comp.os.linux.portable Nuno Silva  wrote:   
      
   >> [*] As far as a Broadcom Wireless NIC can work, which isn't much, hence   
   >>     the quotes.   
   >   
   > Well my home WiFi actually runs from a Broadcom chip in a wireless   
   > router running OpenWrt (and the b43 driver with firmware files in   
   > /lib/firmware/b43, I see, not sure which package they came from).   
   > It is rather crippled for performance with the Linux driver, but   
   > hasn't been unreliable.   
      
   I had the b43 on a laptop I once had (a HP, don't remember the model   
   number), it was a bit of a pita, but then they released the NdisWrapper   
   and you could use the ms-windows driver, worked for the most of the   
   time, sometimes you needed to reboot to get the wifi to work, that was   
   before there was an open source driver that worked.   
      
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