From: "Alan Cox"
Sent: Saturday, 2010/September/11 15:32
>> Which is particularly annoying to me because I hold a license that allows
>> me to use this sort of capabilities in one specific band that is within
>> the capabilities of the typical wireless chips. I can also use serious
>> power if I
> Which is particularly annoying to me because I hold a license that allows
> me to use this sort of capabilities in one specific band that is within
> the capabilities of the typical wireless chips. I can also use serious
> power if I wish.
Ditto - although there are other rules on how it can be
From: "Alan Cox"
Sent: Friday, 2010/September/10 01:25
>> > I wonder what changed to cause Broadcom to change tune. Broadcom
>> > seemed
>> > to think that their secret sauce was oh so important to keep secret.
>> >
>> > -wolfgang
>>
>> I think the reason was that the driver would expose infor
> I think a very big 'MAYBE' should be tacked to your explanation.
> We have had open source wireless drivers long before BCM did any
> thing to "ease" the so called complicated safeguards to prevent
> rogue use of the wireless devices.
Yes - they were reverse engineered - that's very different t
On 09/10/2010 01:25 AM, Alan Cox wrote:
>>> I wonder what changed to cause Broadcom to change tune. Broadcom seemed
>>> to think that their secret sauce was oh so important to keep secret.
>>>
>>> -wolfgang
>> I think the reason was that the driver would expose information
>> about the inner des
On 09/09/2010 02:33 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 13:29:35 -0500 JD wrote:
>
>
>>
>> On 09/09/2010 11:08 AM, Linuxguy123 wrote:
>>
>>> That is a huge, supreme acknowledgment of the influence that Linux is
>>> having on the market place. Windows is dying. Totally left out
On 09/10/2010 01:35 PM, Dave Ihnat wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 09:25:25AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
>> Wireless has been particularly problematic for many vendors for a long
>> time because the US regulations require wireless devices are not user
>> tamperable. This leads to questions like "what
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 09:25:25AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Wireless has been particularly problematic for many vendors for a long
> time because the US regulations require wireless devices are not user
> tamperable. This leads to questions like "what does that mean if it's open
> source and you ca
On 9/9/2010 2:03 PM, Neal Becker wrote:
> http://lwn.net/Articles/404248/rss
>
>
Does this mean I can hope to see Fedora support for my (I believe
Broadcom-based) Dell sometime?
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> > I wonder what changed to cause Broadcom to change tune. Broadcom seemed
> > to think that their secret sauce was oh so important to keep secret.
> >
> > -wolfgang
>
> I think the reason was that the driver would expose information
> about the inner design of their chipset, which they felt mig
On 09/09/2010 05:16 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> Neal Becker writes:
>> http://lwn.net/Articles/404248/rss
> I wonder what changed to cause Broadcom to change tune. Broadcom seemed
> to think that their secret sauce was oh so important to keep secret.
>
> -wolfgang
I think the reason was
Neal Becker writes:
> http://lwn.net/Articles/404248/rss
I wonder what changed to cause Broadcom to change tune. Broadcom seemed
to think that their secret sauce was oh so important to keep secret.
-wolfgang
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On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 14:03:21 -0400,
Neal Becker wrote:
> http://lwn.net/Articles/404248/rss
I was just reading some complaints about the wl driver yesterday. Not only
is new driver open, it uses mac80211.
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On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 14:03 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> http://lwn.net/Articles/404248/rss
>
Next up: nVidia ? Maybe not, but they sure seem to have improved their
proprietary Linux driver a lot recently. I know, I know... it still
isn't what we need and it should be open. But lets at least ap
On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:03:21 -0400
Neal Becker wrote:
> http://lwn.net/Articles/404248/rss
>
And Duke Nukem is coming! Too bad the Cubs can't complete the trifecta.
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On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 13:29:35 -0500 JD wrote:
>
>
> On 09/09/2010 11:08 AM, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> > That is a huge, supreme acknowledgment of the influence that Linux is
> > having on the market place. Windows is dying. Totally left out of the
> > mobile computing device market. Apple and Linux
On 09/09/2010 11:08 AM, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> That is a huge, supreme acknowledgment of the influence that Linux is
> having on the market place. Windows is dying. Totally left out of the
> mobile computing device market. Apple and Linux (Android, Meego, et al)
> are the new way forward. Apple
On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 14:03 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> http://lwn.net/Articles/404248/rss
>
That is a huge, supreme acknowledgment of the influence that Linux is
having on the market place. Windows is dying. Totally left out of the
mobile computing device market. Apple and Linux (Android, Meeg
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