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<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">Dear Help,</FONT></TT><BR>
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<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">currently I'm an Arch Linux user and I would like to free my Arch</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">Linux to Parabola.</FONT></TT><BR>
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<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">But I'm afraid that my wireless will stop working afterwards, and that</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">would be very bad, because atm I only can use wireless, if it breaks,</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">it will be very uncomfortable to fix it...</FONT></TT><BR>
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<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">I have a broadcom chip:</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">[14e4:4727] (rev 01)</FONT></TT><BR>
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<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">which works perfectly fine with brcmsmac in Arch Linux. But as far as</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">I know brcmsmac uses proprietary firmware. So it's not included in</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">your kernel version, right?</FONT></TT><BR>
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<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">I know that one can use openfwwf with b43 in principal, but b43</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">doesn't support my chip as far as I know.</FONT></TT><BR>
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<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">So, is there a way to run Parabola on this netbook, or will</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">linux-libre break my wireless?</FONT></TT><BR>
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<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">Thanks,</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">Julia</FONT></TT><BR>
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hello, Julia!<BR>
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Looks like your wifi card doesn't work with linux-libre[1], which is the kernel for all libre distributions of GNU/Linux. The driver code is under GNU GPL but there is a binary blob, that's kind suspicious, I recommend you to buy a wifi card which respect your freedom (and less suspicious!), here is a list of wifi cards which works with Linux-Libre[2] that list just show cards of PCI type, because looks like your card isn't a PCI-Express or a MiniPCI either (but, is better you paste what lspci -nn | grep Ethernet shows, just to be sure).<BR>
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If you install Parabola or another free software distribution, your wifi card won't be broken, it just will stop working :)<BR>
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cheers! <BR>
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[1] <A HREF="http://www.h-node.org/wifi/view/en/201/-Broadcom-Corporation-BCM4313-802-11b-g-n-">http://www.h-node.org/wifi/view/en/201/-Broadcom-Corporation-BCM4313-802-11b-g-n-</A><BR>
[2] http://www.h-node.org/wifi/catalogue/en/1/1/undef/undef/yes/PCI/alphabetically/undef<BR>
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