Dnia środa, 24 marca 2010 o 18:08:18 Larry Finger napisał(a):
On 03/24/2010 10:44 AM, Mariusz Fik wrote:
Anyway Fedora and Sidux use it. Maybe other distros use it too... Will openSUSE 11.3 use .33 kernel? If yes, as You said, it got panic fixed.
I do know that Fedora uses the openfwwf. The wireless maintainer, john Linville, makes sure that all the b43 devs get Cced on all pertinent Fedora Bug reports.
Kernel 2.3.34 will be in 11.3, thus the panics are not a problem, unless some 11.2 user grabs it. I guess that I would have no objection to installing the openfwwf on every system with a Broadcom wireless device as long as the fwcutter package is also installed and the script executed as soon as network is available. The driver is written to prefer the proprietary firmware over the open-source version, thus as soon as the proprietary firmware is installed, it does not matter how buggy the openfwwf is. What I want to avoid is having some user run his system for months and then have his wireless crash because his firmware is buggy.
Larry
The main goal of open source firmware is include it into installation media. This will help many users to get online over their broadcom wifi cards. The range of wifi cards which work 'out on the box' will grow. Current script 'install_bcm43xx_firmware' will be of course available and can be executed immediately after user gets online. Installing proprietary firmware makes opensource one unnecessary. -- Pozdrawiam / Best regards, Mariusz Fik, openSUSE Community Member