[ale] Ale Digest, Vol 22, Issue 38

[Collin Pruitt]

As far as I know, you can do the same thing in Debian as you can in
Ubuntu/Mint.


> Asher Vilensky wrote:
> <snipped>
> > /so, I'm reading in the Mint forum and folks are talking about what they
> > did to get wireless working on their Dell 1525 which has a Broadcom chip
> > that someone only wrote a replacement for back in Sept. And I can't make
> > heads or tails of
> > it....grrr...http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download...down at the
> > Bleeding Edge area, talks about tarballs etc...Be sure you have your
> > kernel headers installed first...WTF ?!?!/
> >
> >
> > Anybody have any advice?
> > (Sorry, I haven't done any leg work myself....family issues...)
> >
>
> you will need an Ubuntu/Mint person to verify, but in Debian you can use
> Module Assistant to help through this.
>
> sudo aptitude install module-assistant
>
> then do something like:
>
> sudo m-a
>
> and follow the prompts.  i'm not familiar with the broadcom driver, can
> it use fw-cutter?
>
> --
>
> Arrant Drivel - really, it's just trash...
> http://www.arrantdrivel.com/
>
> Where the road takes me - a highwayman's perspective
> http://www.prestonboyington.com/
>

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