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| Message-ID | <66a58afa@news.ausics.net> (permalink) |
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| From | not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) |
| Subject | Re: What are the best live (not installing yet) Linux distro to boot from a bootable USB stick in a 13.3" 2020 Intel MBP to try out? |
| Newsgroups | alt.os.linux, alt.linux, comp.os.linux.hardware, comp.os.linux.portable |
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| Date | 2024-07-28 10:04 +1000 |
| Organization | Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net |
Cross-posted to 4 groups.
In comp.os.linux.portable Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> wrote: > On 2024-07-27, Computer Nerd Kev wrote: >> >> Based on this page that seems likely because it claims that Apple >> Macbooks have used Broadcom WiFi chipsets since 2008, and those >> drivers aren't included in Debian by defaut because they're classed >> as "non-free": >> https://wiki.debian.org/MacBook/Wireless > > What that page states seems to be that the Broadcom WLAN NICs used in > MacBooks "work"[*] with the in-kernel open driver, and that the > proprietary part missing is the firmware[**]. Ah right, I wasn't sure if it was like a Realtek Ethernet driver I use where Debian put it in "non-free" because it includes the firmware as binary data in the driver's source code. There's also an in-kernel driver for that which is "free" but it doesn't work at all (it just creates a network interface that doesn't do anything). > [*] As far as a Broadcom Wireless NIC can work, which isn't much, hence > the quotes. Well my home WiFi actually runs from a Broadcom chip in a wireless router running OpenWrt (and the b43 driver with firmware files in /lib/firmware/b43, I see, not sure which package they came from). It is rather crippled for performance with the Linux driver, but hasn't been unreliable. -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#
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