<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 15 February 2012 17:17, Dave Morley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davmor2@davmor2.co.uk">davmor2@davmor2.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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</div><div class="im">On 15/02/12 17:11, Adam Sweet wrote:<br>
> On 15/02/12 16:52, Barry W wrote:<br>
>> Hi folks.<br>
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>> I'm thinking of installing a linux distro on an old Dell<br>
>> Inspiron 2200 laptop (with expanded ram). This had the Broadcom<br>
>> B43 chipset for the wifi which I understand can be tricky with<br>
>> some flavours of linux.<br>
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</div>If you use Ubuntu 11.10 then the broadcom drivers are on the install<br>
media you need to enable allow 3rd party drivers and then they are<br>
made available for install and are used by the live system there and then.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>I've just tried Ubuntu 11.10, got the wifi working after a bit of a faff, but the connection was so slow as to be unusable. Has anyone else found this? <br><br>Not sure about the UI too, what was wrong with Gnome that they replaced it?<br>
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