Same response I gave just on Lenovo netbook. Please try images at
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On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Alan Cox <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:25:06 -0700
> Rusty Lynch <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 03:55 -0700, Jim Carroll wrote:
> > > I know it's not an officially supported hardware platform, but is it
> > > possible to get WiFi working on a Dell Inspiron Mini 10 with the Moblin
> > > 2.0 Beta? I've seen a lot of conversations regarding the Broadcom
> > > chipset - is that the issue here?
> >
> > yes, that is the issue.  We will not incorporate a binary driver (and
> > that includes a driver that provides source with a binary blob that gets
> > linked inside) into Moblin.
> >
> > OSV's that productize Moblin or individuals can make up their own mind
> > on the matter.
>
> They way to make a difference is to help out on the bcm43xx project. The
> reverse engineering team have reverse engineered the newer "lower power"
> phy on the various small systems but much code needs to be written by
> people who are not part of the bcm43xx reverse engineering team and
> haven't had access to Broadcomm proprietary docs etc.
>
>
>
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