Comment 17 for bug 694328
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| Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote Re: Third-party software option is confusing | #17 |
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This bug continues to be quite irritating. I'm concerned many users may give up on Ubuntu simply because it's not obvious how to get their Broadcom wireless working out-of-the-box.
If the trick is to tick a box that mostly talks about MP3 support then we need to rethink that text and make it more obvious: "You need this option to support some Broadcom wireless chips!"
If the user doesn't know the trick then they need to be quite advanced to fix their wifi after installation: Download bcmwl packages on a separate machine and copy them over manually. I'm guessing many users just give up instead, with no working wireless support.