i know this is a good news.
i read so many Broadcom problems with various Linux distros, in particular the wireless driver.
Personally, i had a BCM57788 on my relatively new Dell desktop. That is a gigabit wired NIC. On windows 7 it runs super fast ( can transfer average of 400-500Mbits/s with another gigabit NIC on the gigabit network with burst rate near 800Mbits/s).
When i tried on several Linux distros, most of the distros with kernel 2.6.33 would not have network. Some works with kernel 2.6.34
there are bug reports everywhere, and a lot of work around published ( usually modprobe -r tg3, modprobe broadcom, modprobe tg3) . somehow this did not work on my computer for many distros.
anyway pinguy os is with kernel 2.6.32 and have no problem, LinuxMint9/LMDE also no problem.
my wish is the new pinguy os 10.10 or any other would have not problem for me
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