SPAM: [TAG] Using Broadcom Wifi with Linux

[Tom Brown]

Benjamin A. Okopnik wrote:

>If you don't want to do what you say you need to do, that's a personal
>problem having nothing to do with Linux. Grousing about Linux in _this_
>forum, particularly if that grousing is based on unwillingness to exert
>yourself a little, will not get you much in a way of sympathy -
>especially after people have extended themselves to help you. Being
>insulting to the people who have given you the result of their efforts
>and asked for nothing except your recognition and respect will get you a
>lot less than sympathy.
>
First, my apologies for making it seem like I was criticizing you guys. 
That was not my intention, although on re-reading what I said, it sure 
looked like it. My comment was really aimed at Linux itself out of sheer 
frustration. When it works, it's as easy as Windows, but just try to get 
that last piece of hardware to work, and you could be in for trouble. 
Did I say easy as Windows? Huh? Well, I recently introduced my 
11-year-old son to Linux (the hard way: his machine died, and now he has 
to borrow mine). He says he likes it better than Windows XP. Of course, 
he has me for his Sys Admin, so that may count for something.

Again, sorry if I insulted anybody. The advice was really spot-on, and I 
now have working wifi on the laptop thanks to that advice. Thank you all.


Tom (Hanging His Head in Shame) Brown.