Re: Broadcom B43 Wireless Card / Driver Issues

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On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, John W. Linville wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 07:49:06PM -0200, Martin Marques wrote:
> > John W. Linville escribió:
>
> > >If you want a technical explanation...the hardware in question is
> > >"soft MAC" device which uses the mac80211 infrastructure in the
> > >kernel.
> >
> > Isn't this one of the things that are gonna get improved with the new
> > driver in kernel 2.6.25?
>
> Which new driver is that?  I think you must be thinking of something else.
>
> The b43 driver has been upstream since 2.6.23, FWIW.

i just know i'm going to regret asking this but what's the story with
the "b44" driver?  is that a proposed improvement over b43?  i'm
reading the output from Teh Google and i'm still not clear on how it
fits into all this.

rday
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