Same response I gave just on Lenovo netbook. Please try images at http://modlinimages.ae
Modlin Admin 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. > > > > -- > -- > "Alan, I'm getting a bit worried about you." > -- Linus Torvalds > _______________________________________________ > Moblin dev Mailing List > [email protected] > > To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: > http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on > http://moblin.org once logged in. > > For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: > http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists > _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List [email protected] To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
