On Tue, 31 May 2016 13:17:57 +0100, Adrian Caspersz wrote:

Advice for Samsung laptop or PC owners... "Don't upgrade to Windows 10"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05..._samsung_fail/

Whoops ...

The problem appears to be incompatible Broadcom wifi cards - an issue that MS and Broadcom need to sort
out between them - if it is possible to do so. However, the problem may be one that can't be resolved.
Broadcom seem to specialise in wifi chipsets that have compatibility problems. I have encountered numerous
examples of Linux installations that have to be tweaked post-installation because of driver issues with
Broadcom wifi cards. To be fair to MS, the Broadcom hardware that is incompatible was introduced before
2010. So...we have a wireless chipset that was at least 6 years old at the time Win 10 was introduced, which
turns out to be incompatible. It's unfortunate but not particularly unusual that some old hardware doesn't run on
a later OS. This is not a scandal or a major oversight by MS, just "one of those things". What now needs to
happen (if it hasn't already) is that, until a solution is found, the Win 10 install routine needs to check for this
and refuse to install if an incompatible wireless card is detected. Meanwhile, Samsung owners desperate to
run Win 10 need to swap out their Broadcom cards for something that is compatible.

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Tony
'09 FJR1300, '07 Street Triple OMF#24