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[–] xX_fnord_Xx 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Im_old 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

There was no DKMS back then (it appeared in 2003 and took a while longer to be adopted) so anything you wanted to add to the kernel and didn't have a ready-made binary module for your exact machine and distro had to come as a patch + recompile.

[–] xX_fnord_Xx 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But you try to tell the young people today that... and they won't believe yah!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

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