Great news for laptop users
Broadcom, in conjunction with Dell and Canonical, has released a wireless driver for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Linux. You can read more about it here.
One caveat: the drivers aren’t completely Open Source. From the article:
“It is currently only partially open-source, similar to ATI or NVIDIA video drivers, so keep this in mind when deciding if you want to use it.” (said John Hull, Dell’s Manager of Linux OS Engineering) In other words, you’ll still need the proprietary Broadcom firmware. If you’re not a free-software absolutist though, you’ll be able to use these drivers.
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