Tested #Fedora Linux 41 on an old #DELL #Latitude #E6320 2 cpu 4GB RAM Notebook yesterday. Compared to other major distros it seemed terribly slow. But the major failure simply is the fact that the internal DELL #wifi and #bluetooth card seems not to be supported out of the box. The UI will not show a valid wifi device, no app for driver lookup/install, no success. Any USB attached wifi will just work. The internal, not so much. That's just another big disappointment by #IBM's #RedHat
=> More informations about this toot | More toots from Axel1973@mastodon.social
@Axel1973
Afaik the not working hardware on Fedora might be usually caused by the open source policy, by which by default on Fedora you get only open source software.
=> More informations about this toot | More toots from Szwendacz@social.linux.pizza
@Szwendacz @Axel1973 yes. that laptop has a Dell 1530 wifi adapter, which is Broadcom-based. those don't always work with the open source driver (b43) and firmware (b43-openfwwf). you can try use b43-fwcutter to extract proprietary firmware to use with b43 - see https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/b43-fwcutter/blob/rawhide/f/README.too . if that doesn't work, you need to use a proprietary driver, which cannot be shipped in fedora under the only-open-source policy. it's available from rpmfusion non-free as broadcom-wl .
=> More informations about this toot | More toots from adamw@fosstodon.org
@adamw @Szwendacz thanks for the info. i said that the wifi works on other distros. turns out, i was wrong on this specific model. it does not work with other distros neither. I was mistaken by a similar, but slightly different DELL Latitude series that must contain a slightly different wifi/bt card. so i did wrong to #fedora. It's really is simply a licensing problem.
=> More informations about this toot | More toots from Axel1973@mastodon.social This content has been proxied by September (3851b).Proxy Information
text/gemini