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    Ubuntu and wireless on Acer

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by starling, Jul 17, 2007.

  1. starling

    starling Notebook Consultant

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    Ubuntu (Fiesty Fawn) works fine on my Acer Aspire 5040 laptop. Full functionality as far as I can tell (I'm not new to Linux, having used a few distros on desktop computers). The only thing that doesn't work is wireless networking on the Broadcom card. Anyone successfully gotten this to work on an Acer?
     
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    msiner Notebook Consultant

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    Go to ubuntuforums.org and search for Broadcom. You should be able to find good instructions on using NDISWrapper to enable wireless.
     
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