[ILUG] Fwd: Dell: Ubuntu Linux 9.04 now available

[Glen Gray]

Andrew McCarthy wrote:
>     * A common complaint we heard a few years ago was that there were
>       no Linux drivers for Dell wireless cards. As of the date of this
>       blog post, all currently-shipping Intel- and Dell-branded
>       wireless cards (as well as most from the past several years) are
>       now supported natively in Ubuntu 9.04. These drivers should also
>       be included in most other newer Linux distributions as well.
>   
That's not strictly true. The Broadcom driver is not free and as a 
result will never end up in the likes of Fedora or Debian. I've got a 
howto on getting the Broadcom working on the mini 9 with Moblin as it's 
a target platform of Moblin's but they can't ship the driver.

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