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Comment by bityard

13 hours ago

Broadcom (and to a lesser extent, Realtek) devices had always been anywhere between hit-or-miss and completely unworkable on Linux, LONG before Raspberry Pi came around.

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trinix912  9 hours ago

My experience too. Sometimes I did manage to eventually get their cards working under Linux after pulling some proprietary firmware blobs.

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