[Eug-lug] ubuntu 7.10

[Garl Grigsby]

kjim9 at clearwire.net wrote:
>  I installed Ubuntu 7.10 on a laptop with a broadcom 43xx wireless 
> card. When I tried to start the wireless connection I heard a pop and 
> the laptop stopped working. There was a bunch of white crud on the 
> hole over the fan after blowing out with compressed air the laptop 
> works but the wireless is dead under windows and haven't tried under 
> linux again. Everything else seems to work.  Has anybody else had 
> problems with ubuntu 7.10 on a laptop with a broadcom 43xx wireless?
>  When I get some money I will take it down to Mr O. at work and see 
> what can be done.
> Jim K
>
Did the white crud look like paper?

Garl