On tor, 2004-06-17 at 11:23 -0400, Steve Brenneis wrote: > On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 10:44, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 10:27:58AM -0400, Steve Brenneis wrote: > > > If there was such a huge demand, ATI and Broadcom would both have > > > developed at least binary drivers for Linux. Both steadfastly refuse to > > > > ATI did, Broadcom did > > > > References? If they produced drivers for Linux, it will be news to a lot > of people. It will also make projects like ndiswrapper unnecessary. Are > you sure of this? I bought an Asus A7V8X motherboard a year ago with an integrated Broadcom 4401 ethernet interface. To my great surprise there where GPL'ed linux drivers on the CDROM that came with the board. Oddly enough, driver wasn't announced on broadcom's webpage or anything like that, but it was on the cdrom. Later I found out that the driver wasn't too stable, and davem did a complete rewrite with the b44 driver that is included in fedora nowdays but I must say that I'm very happy that broadcom at least did try. /noa -- And the lions ate the christians and the christians burned the witches, and even I am out of explanations -- Ola Salo gpg fingerprint: F3C4 AC90 B885 FE15 344B 4D05 220B 7662 A190 6F09
