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[ILUG] SLED10 review, hmmm, wireless lan so easy>?

[ILUG] SLED10 review, hmmm, wireless lan so easy>?

Daniel Shaw dshaw78 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 19 14:52:16 IST 2006


> Wireless LAN support (or lack of) is the reason I run MacOSX on my laptop.
> I rfuse to use those wrappers, they really annoy me. I would prefer a
> tainted kernel to be honest.
>
> Might just give suse a go again. Anyone tried it?

>From /. this morning:

"After almost three months, Linux 2.6.17 has been released. The
changes include support for
[snip]
driver for the widely used broadcom 43xx wifi chip (Apple's Airport
Extreme and such),
[snip]
and many other changes listed at the changelog"

So just roll your own brand spanking new kernel on your favourite
flavour and Bob's your Auntie..

- Daniel

PS: Yay for gentoo!..
*  sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
      Latest version available: 2.6.17



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