Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-testing (86 mails)

[Martin Schlander <martin.schlander@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mandag den 28. september 2009 05:04:59 skrev Larry Finger:
> Bernhard Wiedemann wrote:
> > wontfix: b43 (WLAN) firmware missing -> install_bcm43xx_firmware helps
>
> Just for clarity: This is a "cannot fix" rather than a "won't fix".
> The copyright on the firmware files is held by Broadcom and they will
> not give permission to distribute them. The script
> /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware is the most we can do. 

I'm told Ubuntu has something that pops up and tells broadcom wlan owners that 
they have hardware which requires restricted stuff and then installs it - 
probably by running a similar script - but the user doesn't have to figure out 
which chip he has, and then that the script exists for installing the 
firmware.
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