2009/9/30 Alberto Passalacqua <alberto.passalacqua@tin.it>:
SuSE could have, but openSUSE cannot. That is a decision that was made by Novell - only open-licensed software will be distributed.
Well, I do not know what the terms of the agreement with Broadcom are. Novell already provides on nvidia ftp pre-packaged nVidia drivers. I think the same could be done for Broadcom drivers. When I asked, nobody said Broadcom refused and nobody confirmed they asked, so I do not know why this wasn't done.
I have an HP Mininote which is probaly suffering from this Broadcom issue. Has there been any discussion within Novel/openSUSE to contact Broadcom directly to get a user friendly solution? As openSUSE is distributing Opera/NVidia/ATI and similar free , but closed source products, I can't see any reason for not giving our users the same option regarding this driver. If possible...... I'd be more than willing to test any official solution. Kind Regards Birger -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-testing+help@opensuse.org