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Message-ID: <20070201135903.GE29212@harddisk-recovery.com>
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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