[gentoo-dev] net-misc/bcm4400 going away

2006-08-30 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, net-misc/bcm4400 is a kernel driver built as an external package through portage. The codebase which this package use has been discontinued upstream. The upstream replacement (which is not in Portage directly) is simply a copy of the in-kernel b44 driver code. For this reason we are

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-misc/bcm4400 going away

2006-08-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 11:54, Daniel Drake wrote: For this reason we are suggesting everyone migrates to the b44 in-kernel driver works great for me :) (I guess net-misc/bcm4400 doesn't really have any users anyway...). i tried it, it killed my kernel everytime :( -mike