Re: Not Much LINUX Stuff of Late

The Natural Philosopher <[email protected]> Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:28:33 +0100
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Organization A little, after lunch
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 31/07/2026 06:33, Stanislav N. aka pztrn wrote:
> Broadcom Wi-Fi is a biggest crap in Linux world because there are no 
> good driver for it.

I think there is, these days.

bcmwl-kernel-source or broadcom-sta-dkms are AFAIK proprietary but 
supported by broadcom

IIRC many Raspberry Pis use a broadcom chipset, and they mostly work

But I agree, in the past it was a complete pain

Along with Nvidia GPUs, but at least they made their drivers feely available


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