Re: [ilugd] Fwd: [ILUG-GOA] Broadcom releases an open-source driver for its wireless chipsets
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) writes: 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. Lets hope they also release specifications of the chipset, so other Free OSs can also get a driver for it. - -- Ashish SHUKLA | GPG: F682 CDCC 39DC 0FEA E116 20B6 C746 CFA9 E74F A4B0 freebsd.org!ashish | http://people.freebsd.org/~ashish/ Avoid Success At All Costs !! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJMidK1AAoJEMdGz6nnT6SwjqQP/3jSJe6D0ey/6dgO23EIWSvr HiW97xXTMGcAHzRiOdi1xy2aLgEw4vthJeVB5zkxxj1S8Hal6mYDuDtbU3UMYN2U B7XoPVNtF1fYUzlooxfeTCtagr68ryq2WPmnx/8A5GNG/xx1/NkMPMzaBqdyyxqN U85SVi1kyRcfIsTSj8nT2Yh6WKfWf7tCgnvuhlGJZEqariSTHJ1d3e0zidqnztrw /CC+xw/seM7vwkASnXLcSsK54fkbwAnlxcqZgQdZAFW8Ea9sP+IPzddKLF+ug/VD RJkh7CB6WTxv36ZIx1HzkdWkJ9OkPXwSesn86BheEfKyu1jSfs0EKOe6j107zvNx eNPr12CNM+ufZeuzGMvMc4lk0UvB2BTf2W6yylkqp+JAFoPpEYGriUFvqCQ1Hzil vAi54oLl+umD6kyhyzeGHwB7jJoLtDV9+0DkNB7N4EXNsqW7DVH5B66e403MOvee YldFFwaF25jh8WgUlw48qh3C1Ij6JqNj5Ll5D1O01Dbo188Lk8OU3hUEt2LJU36X 8Xv7IN2gAav7DPZZlMAPE6V9Vfxxuy/KD95immuPnfMCQRIIB95sNXqUve7JxcWa 4YJ1bUgLyxm5m9H2cVJRi6MXheTWfa68LTAO8BXrhPAQl/kIzrRMRny0iOEZikdY jZfh5dsWn1TVxp6dJrz/ =CqC6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Fwd: [ILUG-GOA] Broadcom releases an open-source driver for its wireless chipsets
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Kaustubh Naik naikaustubh at gmail.com Date: Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:53 PM Subject: [ILUG-GOA] Broadcom releases an open-source driver for its wireless chipsets To: ilug-goa ilug-...@yahoogroups.com As someone has already said, better late than never! http://lwn.net/Articles/404248/ -- Kaustubh Naik Ponda-Goa Read my random diaries at http://solewitness.wordpress.com/ Read my poems here at http://mindinrhymes.blogspot.com/ Email Ids ksn...@chowgules.ac.in ksn002%40chowgules.ac.in, naikaust...@gmail.comnaikaustubh%40gmail.com. kaustubh_s_n...@yahoo.co.in kaustubh_s_naik%40yahoo.co.in Code is poetry [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] __._,_.___ -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! www.projects4students.com ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Fwd: [ILUG-GOA] Broadcom releases an open-source driver for its wireless chipsets
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 Mathurr...@kandalaya.org 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 Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
