May 22nd, 2007 by 
jay
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Distros,
Laptops,
Wireless I loaded up the PCLinuxOS 2007 LiveCD last night and during the setup (of the LiveCD) it asks how you’d like to connect to the network either Ethernet, modem or wireless. On a total whim I choose Wireless. It then asked me to select the Windows driver which I luckily had on a USB drive. Unfortunately PCLinux could not yet see the external USB drive but it could see my Windows NTFS partition. So on another total whim I browsed the Windows partition looking for the Broadcom drivers I had downloaded from Gateway a while back. I found the file that I was looking for (bcmwl5a.inf) which has worked in the past with Xubuntu and my laptop and clicked OK. It did some stuff and then displayed a list of wireless networks. I must point out that I was not connected to a network in another way so at this point the wireless card is working. So I choose my wireless network and entered my security key and bang I’ve got a 54Mbps connection to the internet.
The only downside to this happy story is that PCLinuxOS kept freezing up for a few seconds at a time and it would not launch some applications.
But I am still impressed to get wireless working with a LiveCD.
Distros Laptops Wireless
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July 5th, 2006 by jay
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Laptops,
Xubuntu Summary
Xubuntu 6.06 is a derivative from the popular Ubuntu Linux distro with the difference being Xubuntu uses the Xfce Window Manager instead of Gnome or KDE. Xfce is a light weight Open Source window manager that is fast and efficient which makes Xubuntu ideal for lower end computers. Or if you want a super fast system try Xubuntu on a newer system like a my Gateway MX6440 Laptop (1.8Ghz Turion64 with a gig of RAM) and you’ll be amazed at how fast Linux can run.
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Laptops Xubuntu
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June 27th, 2006 by jay
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Laptops,
Tips N Tricks,
Wireless Linux and Wireless is currently a pain in the arse. Some wireless vendors are hip to Linux and others could care less. To get around the this issue Linux hackers and some vendors have created dirvers or hacks to get Linux and wifi in the sama bed.
This page is my resource and links page for trying to get wifi working on my Gateway MX6440 laptop which has a poorly supported Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02). At some point I am going to buy either a USB Wifi, a PCMCIA Wifi Card or a miniPCI Wifi card.
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Laptops Tips N Tricks Wireless
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June 27th, 2006 by jay
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HOWTO,
Laptops,
Wireless,
Xubuntu I found this post at the Ubuntu forums and it worked for me:
Ok, so there are other tutorials out there for the other 43xx cards, but from my experience, none of them have worked with the specific 4318 card. This way i will explain below is the only way i have gotten my 4318 card to work with 6.06
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HOWTO Laptops Wireless Xubuntu
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June 27th, 2006 by jay
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I had an HP Pavilion ze4560 but it “died” so I got a new one via my Best Buy warranty.
Spec: AMD Mobile 2500+ (1.8 Ghz) 512 RAM 40GBHD with a Broadcom Wireless Card.
The wifi card worked once in Knoppix but I messed with someting and it never worked in Linux again 
Durring the 2.5 years I owned this laptop I was able to run almost every Linux distro without any real headaches. In fact the list of distros that did not work is suprisingly very short.
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June 27th, 2006 by jay
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Distros,
Hardware,
Laptops My new laptop is a beast but it has some crappy HW when it comes to Linux support.
Spec:
-AMD Turion 64 (1.8Ghz)
-1 GBRAM
-100GBHD
-Broadcom Wireless Card
-Widescreen 15.4.
I actually got the wifi working after about a week of trying everything.
This laptop is almost more of a beast than my gaming rig (AMD 2200+ w/ 1GBRAM 256VID). This rig was a replacement for my HP and if I had my way I’d have gottn another HP and not a Gateway. Durring short time that I owned this laptop I have ben unable to run most Linux distros. In fact the list of distros that do work is suprisingly very short.
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Distros Hardware Laptops
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