install proprietary drivers and codecs. Previous versions did not have that
option and proprietary drivers were added post installation which was
problematic for many people. This was done out of principle, but they have
seen the error of their ways. ;)
BTW, Broadcom has recently open sourced its drivers and this should soon be
a problem of the past in all distros in the near future.
Roy
Using Kubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, 64-bit
Location: Canada
On 28 October 2010 00:16, Matthew K <matt_hew@rocketmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> I was thinking of switching distros to Ubuntu from Mandriva. The problem is
> Mandriva One was the only Linux distro I have used that supports Broadcom
> wireless drivers out of the box.
>
> I was searching online and see people having trouble with this, but the
> newest reference is from 2005. I have heard that Ubuntu has some great
> hardware support now. Does anyone know how well Ubuntu works with Broadcom
> wireless cards today?
>
> I know I could use a wrapper and use the proprietary Windows driver, but I
> was looking for a simpler approach. Something that would work out of the
> box, as this is the main operating system on this laptop.
>
>
>
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