On 09/28/2009 06:05 AM, Gustin Johnson wrote: > My last laptop had a bcm43xx chipset. Worst laptop experience of my > life, and I have owned quite a few (Macs and PCs). Actually it is safe > to say that it was the worst computer experience of my life. I will no > buy Compaq/HP as a result now. I could not even replace the WiFi > adaptor as they had a small whitelist of PCI-ids in the BIOS. I have > wrested with Broadcomm for years, the short short version is that they > suck. It is unfortunate that so many laptops have their crap in it, but > there is nothing we can really do beyond what is already being done. >
FWIW I have an hp laptop with a b43 module and I just use the drivers provided by broadcom. I have to occasionally recompile them when I upgrade a kernel but they work fine for me. Patrick Shirkey 64 Studio Support Team _______________________________________________ 64studio-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-devel
