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I own a BCM4318-based, MiniPCI WiFi card. I'd install it into the laptop I removed it from, but my medical staff have informed me I've reached the maximum limit of lead paint chips I am able to eat this year. I know of MiniPCI-to-PCI converter cards, but I don't entirely trust them. Are there particular converter cards one should seek out? Are there converter cards to avoid? Can these converter cards threaten host system stability? In short, are they crap? Not having to rely on a Broadcom-based 802.11b/g card as my primary network connection would make it immeasurably easier to assist the bcm43xx project. Peace & Solidarity, Jed Cousin "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." --Antoine de Saint Exupéry -- On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Alan Cox<numb...@the-village.bc.nu> wrote: > 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. > > > > -- > -- > "Alan, I'm getting a bit worried about you." > -- Linus Torvalds > _______________________________________________ > Moblin dev Mailing List > dev@moblin.org > > To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: > http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on > http://moblin.org once logged in. > > For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: > http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists > _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List dev@moblin.org To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
