On Thursday 09 Sep 2010, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: > As someone has already said, better late than never! > http://lwn.net/Articles/404248/
That is indeed good news. It's only as few months back that the native Linux b43 driver started supporting the Broadcom BCM4312 WiFi chipset on my laptop. Before this I had to refrain from using the wireless. I've used proprietary drivers for various hardware components in the past (most notably the infamous nVidia cards) and have always faced issues with their interaction with the rest of the system. Usually the driver itself works beautifully, but causes all sorts of other problems in the system. Some of the issues I remember: - Proprietary driver causes failures in other (native) drivers for related components. - Proprietary driver causes problems with power management. - Proprietary driver doesn't permit glitch-free laptop suspend/hibernate/resume. - Proprietary driver crashes the system if loaded/unloaded too many times. - Proprietary driver doesn't work at all on newer (or older) versions of the kernel. On the whole, then, the more FOSS drivers the better. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur [email protected] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
