• xX_fnord_Xx@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I just broke out into a cold sweat remembering trying to get wifi to function on my netbook back in 2k8.

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      9 months ago

      My friend, let me be that guy that says “that’s nothing!”. In 2002 (around kernel 2.14 I think it was) notebooks had no integrated wifi (at least not the second hand notebook I could afford, and it wasn’t cheap anyway). I had to buy a cisco pmcia wifi card from across the world and recompile the kernel to include wifi support (and the driver of course). I don’t remember why, but I remember that recompiling the kernel happened quite frequently. Maybe because I was distro hopping a lot or because there were quite (relatively speaking) kernel updates. Not good old days, but at least I learnt!

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      9 months ago

      Oh lord, the time I spent trying to get an Airport wifi card working on a dual-USB iBook in Slackware… shudder.