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> Dell officially supports Ubuntu... Meh. I'm writing this from an Asus EeePC which was once officially supported by Ubuntu, but now with broken graphics and w

> Dell officially supports Ubuntu... Meh. I'm writing this from an Asus EeePC which was once officially supported by Ubuntu, but now with broken graphics and wifi. The non-free graphics driver is not included in Ubuntu anymore and the wifi works only with non-free binary blob. Also, I recently found that wifi doesn't support channel 13 and 14 (found it accidentally when my laptop wasn't seeing the nearby hotspot) with the non-free blob. Now I run Debian testing. Don't trust in those "Officially supported" things, unless it's Debian GNU/Linux. Otherwise, it's eventually going to be broken.

vetinari 9y ago
All the current wifi chipsets require binary blobs. They are considered part of the hardware, they are running on the hardware, not on your cpu, they just aren't shipped on an EPROM, but the driver is loading it at init time. The channel visibility is regulatory thing; if you see only channels 1-12 you have set it for North America, most of the world can use 1-13, and Japan also 14 (for 802.11b only).
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Jonnax 9y ago
Well the GPU is Intel who only make an open source driver. And the Wifi driver works out of the box. The world has changed from the times of the EeePC.