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Nice UIs won't fix people's broadcom wireless cards.
by jcastro 9y ago
Nice UIs won't fix people's broadcom wireless cards.
- mixedCase 9y agoResponding snark with snark: Then don't use them. Most wireless cards out there work just fine. When I had to use a laptop with a Broadcom chip for uni I used my Android phone as tethering (charging it as a bonus) and the guy sitting next to me just used a dongle smaller than his thumb.
- jcastro 9y agoMost people (even developers) aren't willing to open up their laptop to replace their laptop wifi cards or to have to use dongles to get on their wireless or to play endless hardware roulette.
- cma 9y agoOSX doesn't work on all windows-only hardware either. You have to buy something with Linux support.
- newman8r 9y agoI have linux distros running on 3 of my apple laptops with broadcom cards - it just meant using a nonfree firmware
- favadi 9y agoI even have problems with Intel card from time to time.