On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:55:32PM -0700, mmarion@qualcomm.com wrote:
On 20 Oct, Curt Purdy wrote:
That is what I have done with the Proxim Gold a/b/g card. SuSE recognized it immediately. I have a little trouble understanding Broadcom's hype about 95% of all new laptops supporting their chip and having so little support in anything but windoze.
I find it confusing that linux support for their wireless chips is so bad at all. I mean, their onboard chipsets (at least the bcm57xx series) is well supported, and they have fairly frequent updates of their own linux driver available on their site. That they're doing so well on the wired side, and so bad on the wireless side is just odd.
The wired support was quite painful too. There is a GPLed driver from BCM for 57xx (bcm57xx), but it was originally quite buggy. Then some Linux people rewrote it to conform more to Linux standards (tg3), but Broadcom originally didn't give them the chip documentation so they had to only base it on the broadcom driver. Later after they long had their driver working and it was used in production broadcom finally gave them some documentation. The wireless group isn't even that far yet and they only give out binaries and no documentation of course. That is why there is no 64bit driver for this chipset. -Andi