fredag 05 januari 2007 20:00 skrev Larry Finger: > Broadcom has made a conscious decision not to support Linux, which is the > reason for this reverse-engineering project. The usual reason is that an > open-source driver would expose their intellectual property to the > competition. Writing or calling them will have no effect. They will say > that if you want to use their product, then you need to run OS X or > Windows. Under Linux, you can always use ndiswrapper. Of course, if you > have a crash while running this way, you can kiss Linux kernel support > goodbye.
That sucks. When the driver you guys have written works really well, people will buy broadcom's hardware because it has good linux support and unknowingly give broadcom tacit approval for these shenannigans, (no specs _and_ pci devices that use 30-bit DMA). Though I guess not having any useable driver is worse... -Bob > > With respect to the 4311, you will be happy to learn that one of the > developers (me) now has one. It does not work with any of the mainline > (2.6.20 or wireless-2.6) kernels, nor with stable (2.6.19). It does work > with the wireless-dev git tree, and I am trying to find the critical > differences between the two trees. When I get a fix, the patches will be > posted here. > > Larry > > _______________________________________________ > Bcm43xx-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
