linux-kernel - Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

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Date:	Thu, 1 Feb 2007 14:59:03 +0100
From:	Erik Mouw <erik@...ddisk-recovery.com>
To:	Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:23:44PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:12:31PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > You mean the bcm43xx wireless driver that's been upstream for months?
> 
> And seems to do 802.11b only and screw up the eeprom settings so that
> the windows driver gets confused next time you boot windows.  Lovely
> driver.

I can't remember that kind of corruption ever being reported to the
bcm43xx-dev mailing list.

>  If the bios on the laptop in question would let me change the
> minipci card I would.  To something with a ralink on it.

You could use a CardBus or USB card.

> Seems the ralink driver maintainers are doing a lot of the work on the
> core wifi infastructure too.  Lots of work beyond just the driver then.

So are the bcm43xx maintainers.


Erik

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