On Tuesday 27 December 2005 22:03, David Weinehall wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 10:16:05PM -0800, Alex Davis wrote: > > > > > > --- Dave Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 09:20:54PM -0800, Alex Davis wrote: > > > > The problem is that, with laptops, most of the time you DON'T > > > > have a choice: HP and Dell primarily use a Broadcomm integrated > > > > wireless card in ther products. As of yet, there is no open > > > > source driver for Broadcomm wireless. > > > > > > We've already been through all this the previous times this came up. > > > > > > http://bcm43xx.berlios.de > > > > > > Whilst it's in early stages, it's making progress. > > > > > > Dave > > > > > > > > I understand that, and am grateful for the effort, but the point is > > it's not ready. Are you expecting people to lose an important feature > > of their laptop until you get the driver ready? > > Yeah, it must be oh so important for the laptop owners with that > particular chipset to run the -mm experimental kernels instead of, their > distro kernel or the stable 2.6-kernel series or Linus latest > installment (or even a git-snapshot or checkout...) Well, the devicescape port of the bcm43xx driver works very relieably on my Apple PowerBook with WPA encryption. (WEP does also work). I don't think there are lots of issues left for non-AccessPoint modes. I simply assume you want to run the card in STA mode, instead of rendering your expensive notebook into an AP. ;) It's been a long time, since I plugged my ethernet cable into the notebook the last time... . -- Greetings Michael.
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