Broadcom has released freesoftware drivers for several of it's wifi chips. Hopefully no more munging of laptop installs.
http://lwn.net/Articles/404248/
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:15 PM, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
Broadcom has released freesoftware drivers for several of it's wifi chips. Hopefully no more munging of laptop installs.
this is a very good news. we should give them an award so that other hardware vendors also follow them.
-- GN
On Friday 10 September 2010 1:33:20 pm Nagarjuna G wrote:
this is a very good news. we should give them an award so that other hardware vendors also follow them.
NVIDIA we're looking at you.
tried nouveau recently it bassicly works, however kwins composting (had to be forced) was very buggy with it, i guess its only a matter of time.
On Friday 10 September 2010 01:33 PM, Nagarjuna G wrote:
this is a very good news. we should give them an award so that other hardware vendors also follow them.
The readers' feedback section speaks a lot about how Broadcom had to change as they were being dropped by major OEMs who are now requiring Linux compatibility for their hardware. Perhaps this is why nowadays there are less problems with laptops not being compatible with GNU/Linux and most work out of the box.
On 10 September 2010 12:15, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
Broadcom has released freesoftware drivers for several of it's wifi chips. Hopefully no more munging of laptop installs.
Kudos to Broadcomm !
@broadcomm: you finally made it . welcome to the free software community . Thanks to your decission all broadcomm networking components will have drivers bundled in all GNU/Linux distributions by default .
And hope it inspired nvidia,ralink and others ( non-free ) to follow your footsteps .
Regards, Pavithran
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