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Rudi Pittman
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As I recall bodhi was the only one where wireless worked out of the box. LXLE for 32 bit is still stuck on 12.04 while 64 bit is on 14.04. I didn't like being stuck on an older version so went with bodhi since the trusty base will be supported till 2019. 12.04 will also give you video glitches on lxle due to not having the sis video chipset fixes added to 14.04. There was a fix for this but I don't remember how as it's been a while. Wired ethernet worked on all of them out of the box..and you always have the option to use a bodhi livecd to download whatever you need since wireless should work for it as well I think. It will give you a feel for whether you will like bodhi or not. Bodhi has an extensive wiki and even a web based appcenter to install some apps so is generally fairly painless for new users to get into. The folks on the forum are very helpful and responsive. Oh bodhi has two 32 bit versions...one is a legacy version intended for very OLD hardware as in pentium's with 512mb ram...y0u won't need that one..just the normal 32 bit.
On lxle and xfce however the only thing you should need to do to get wireless working is make sure the following packages are installed (you can "instal:
b43-fwcutter - utility for extracting Broadcom 43xx firmware
firmware-b43-installer - firmware installer for the b43 driver
firmware-b43legacy-installer - firmware installer for the b43legacy driver
Screenshots of both lxle and bodhi can be found on linuxscreenshots.organization (just the first 3 characters after the period)
On lxle and xfce however the only thing you should need to do to get wireless working is make sure the following packages are installed (you can "instal:
b43-fwcutter - utility for extracting Broadcom 43xx firmware
firmware-b43-installer - firmware installer for the b43 driver
firmware-b43legacy-installer - firmware installer for the b43legacy driver
Screenshots of both lxle and bodhi can be found on linuxscreenshots.organization (just the first 3 characters after the period)
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