https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464385 User jbenc@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464385#c6 Jiri Benc <jbenc@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #6 from Jiri Benc <jbenc@novell.com> 2009-03-02 09:56:57 MST --- The b43 driver is based on reverse-engineering and has been written without any support from Broadcom. It is still work in progress, not everything about the cards is known yet. An interface between the driver and the firmware is slightly different between different firmware revisions; the exact amount of success often depends both on the actual hardware and the actual firmware revision. There is also a binary driver from Broadcom but it is poorly written - expect hangs and strange occasional conflicts with other drivers if you decide to use it (and don't report it to openSUSE bugzilla as we cannot fix anything if a closed source driver is loaded). We won't ship this driver, it violates the Linux kernel license and makes the system unsupportable and unstable. Sorry, we cannot do anything here. You can contact Broadcom and try to push them to opensource their driver or release their specs; however, that approach has been ineffective so far. I suggest to vote with your dollars and buy wifi cards from other vendors. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.