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    [–] xX_fnord_Xx@lemmy.world 13 points 8 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@lemmy.world 9 points 8 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!

    [–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

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

    https://youtu.be/ue7wM0QC5LE?si=6qGRgsuMSx7NaA_D

    [–] sundray@lemmus.org 1 points 8 months ago

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