On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:25:06 -0700
Rusty Lynch <rusty.ly...@intel.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 03:55 -0700, Jim Carroll wrote:
> > I know it's not an officially supported hardware platform, but is it
> > possible to get WiFi working on a Dell Inspiron Mini 10 with the Moblin
> > 2.0 Beta? I've seen a lot of conversations regarding the Broadcom
> > chipset - is that the issue here?
>
> yes, that is the issue. We will not incorporate a binary driver (and
> that includes a driver that provides source with a binary blob that gets
> linked inside) into Moblin.
>
> OSV's that productize Moblin or individuals can make up their own mind
> on the matter.
They way to make a difference is to help out on the bcm43xx project. The
reverse engineering team have reverse engineered the newer "lower power"
phy on the various small systems but much code needs to be written by
people who are not part of the bcm43xx reverse engineering team and
haven't had access to Broadcomm proprietary docs etc.
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"Alan, I'm getting a bit worried about you."
-- Linus Torvalds
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