On 07/13/2010 03:57 PM, Andreas Jaeger pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On Tuesday 13 July 2010 18:14:23 Richard Atcheson wrote:
PRECOMPILED DRIVER
Some distros (Ubuntu and Fedora at the least) already have a version of this driver in their repositories precompiled, tested and ready to go. You just use the package manager to install the proper package. If its available for your distro, this is usually an easier solution. See the end of this document for further discussion."
Why make the use of suse any harder than it already is?
Fedora does not ship it, it's part of rpm fusion.
The driver violates the kernel license and therefore we do not distribute it as part of openSUSE. Why can't Broadcom play this - like many others - according to the roles of the game?
Andreas
Ah Ha! Finally the real reason that people can accept. It violates the kernel license. That's much better then someone saving it goes against someone's opinion. And we all know everyone has an opinion. Now if only we could pick and choose the hardware built inside laptops. I would sure like to tear out the wireless in my laptop and replace it with one that provides an open source solution. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org