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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Wireless NICs (was: Installing printers)

On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 05:45:21PM -0400, Howard Krakower wrote:
> I do recall that there have been issues with
> the Broadcom nic's in Dell laptops when running any flavour of linux.

There are problems with Broadcom NICs in general, Dell laptops
irrespective of that.

> So if this is still an issue, I have a spare Intel wireless nic which I
> will swap in (hardware is my forte).

Most modern but not too much should be good, provided your distro is up
to date as always, and many don't have up to date kernels.

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