its good news. however its my understanding that these drivers are meant for for the latest wlan chipsets that support 802.11b/g/n. however it doesn't mention supporting the older chipsets with only b/g support that are out in the wild like the ones used to come with HP, Dell(masquerading as Dell Wlan Mini card etc)
On Sep 10, 10:16 am, ganesh <[email protected]> wrote: > Broadcom, the world's largest manufacturer of Wi-Fi transceivers, open > sources its Linux device drivers. This is a big win for Linux users, > as there are a lot of users that face Wi-Fi problems when they use > Linux on their laptops. With these device drivers now open source, > distributions can ship them out-of-the-box, and that means no Linux Wi- > Fi problems for new devices and upcoming distributions at all > > http://www.osnews.com/story/23786/BREAKING_BROADCOM_OPEN_SOURCES_WIRE... -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
