On 3/23/2010 8:30 AM, Ashish Verma wrote: > Isn't firmware on the > device and isn't is supposed to effect the functionality when I boot into > another OS?
For wireless drivers the firmware is actually a binary blob on the hard disk. The blob is loaded from the hard disk by the kernel everytime the system boots up and is loaded into the device. So the firmware has nothing to do with what is happening in Windows. It is like this mainly due to some regulatory requirements for radio frequency devices. In case of nVidia drivers, when you upgraded the kernel, the driver was unchanged but the glue code for interfacing the driver to the kernel (which was written to avoid opening up the drivers) had to be recompiled to match the running kernel. Regards, Senthil _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
