On Wed, 27 May 2009 13:14:06 -0300 Leo <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday 27 May 2009 11:06:47 Quiliro Ordóñez wrote: > > 2009/5/27 crap0101 <[email protected]> > > > > > Il giorno mer, 27/05/2009 alle 07.15 -0500, Quiliro Ordóñez ha scritto: > > > > Have a user with a Broadcom BCM 4312 802.11b/g. > > > > I have realized BCM 4312 uses non-free firmware. Is it a good idea to > > install non-free firmware while I can get the owner a wireless card with a > > fully libre driver? > > You can try OpenFWWF[0]; maybe you can make it work for that model. It is > never a good idea to use nonfree sofware. > > [0] http://www.ing.unibs.it/openfwwf/ >
Sadly I think the OpenFWWF firmware still has non-free parts (from the page you sent a link to): "To make the firmware work properly you need at least 2 more files that must be extracted from original Broadcom drivers:" Until that is fixed I don't see how its much better to recommend OpenFWWF. Hopefully this will get solved but until then I strongly recommend that we do not recommend or use this firmware. -- Patrik Lembke www: http://blambi.chebab.com/ jabber: [email protected] GnuPG-key: http://gpg.chebab.com/8FA11A15.asc
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