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...)
Regards: David Weinehall
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