<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>I've found ubuntu pretty good at detecting hardware out-of-the-box. I also googled "ubuntu broadcom bcm4318" and found some stuff on the ubuntu forums (mostly older releases) but with some 2008 comments re 8.04 that it works <a target="_blank" href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=285809&page=23">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=285809&page=23</a>.</span><br><br>Phil<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> KWLUG discussion list
<kwlug-disc@kwlug.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, June 23, 2009 12:30:41 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [kwlug-disc] ubuntu 9.04 and broadcom wireless -- out of the box?<br></font><br><br> in a day or two, i'm going to install ubuntu 9.04 on one of my<br>gateway laptops which has a broadcom BCM4318 wireless chip. will that<br>work out of the box and detect and connect to visible wireless<br>networks, or will i have to manually download and install the<br>appropriate broadcom firmware as i do with fedora? thanks.<br><br>rday<br>--<br><br>========================================================================<br>Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA<br><br> Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry.<br><br>Web
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