[Wolves] What to Install advice

[Barry W]

On 15 February 2012 17:17, Dave Morley <davmor2 at davmor2.co.uk> wrote:

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> On 15/02/12 17:11, Adam Sweet wrote:
> > On 15/02/12 16:52, Barry W wrote:
> >> Hi folks.
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> >> I'm thinking of installing a linux distro on an old Dell
> >> Inspiron 2200 laptop (with expanded ram). This had the Broadcom
> >> B43 chipset for the wifi which I understand can be tricky with
> >> some flavours of linux.
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> If you use Ubuntu 11.10 then the broadcom drivers are on the install
> media you need to enable allow 3rd party drivers and then they are
> made available for install and are used by the live system there and then.
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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?

Not sure about the UI too, what was wrong with Gnome that they replaced it?
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