On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 20:29 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Thursday 14 December 2006 15:12, Ben Collins wrote: > > You can't talk about drivers that don't exist for Linux. Things like > > bcm43xx aren't effected by this new restriction for GPL-only drivers. > > There's no binary-only driver for it (ndiswrapper doesn't count). If the > > hardware vendor doesn't want to write a driver for linux, you can't make > > them. You can buy other hardware, but that's about it. > > Not that is matters in this discussion, but there are binary Broadcom > 43xx drivers for linux available. > > > Here's the list of proprietary drivers that are in Ubuntu's restricted > > modules package: > > > > madwifi (closed hal implementation, being replaced in openhal) > > fritz > > Well, that's not just one, right? > That's like, 10 or so for the different AVM cards. > I'm just estimating. Correct me, if I'm wrong.
One driver, many variations of the chipset. That's true of most drivers. > (And if I didn't mention it yet; AVM binary drivers are > complete crap.) Wont disagree with you there. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
