Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "J.O. Aho" Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,alt.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.portable 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? Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2024 16:28:01 +0200 Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <66a44077@news.ausics.net> <66a58afa@news.ausics.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net EIQJxywS92QNxO5TE1PkcAZqO/41/lDxVf3UXbehZqpi50TAYd Cancel-Lock: sha1:hMJvkkMlNiQvMFlV1shEjw73q+E= sha256:70NMDNCyf/ScfXq2bnqAtn4cdl0eAQOYJDabDM+ftd4= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-US-large In-Reply-To: <66a58afa@news.ausics.net> Xref: csiph.com alt.os.linux:80224 comp.os.linux.hardware:3747 comp.os.linux.portable:88 On 28/07/2024 02.04, Computer Nerd Kev wrote: > In comp.os.linux.portable Nuno Silva wrote: >> [*] 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. I had the b43 on a laptop I once had (a HP, don't remember the model number), it was a bit of a pita, but then they released the NdisWrapper and you could use the ms-windows driver, worked for the most of the time, sometimes you needed to reboot to get the wifi to work, that was before there was an open source driver that worked. -- //Aho