On Tuesday 14 February 2006 11:56 am, Doug McGarrett wrote:
I would really hope that the HP1020 driver will be included in the 10.1 and following editions of SuSE Linux. Also the driver for Broadcom NetXtreme NIC. I have 2 computers with Linux installed, and neither one is fully functional because of these incompatibilities. I will try the 1020 driver, now that the information is at least available, which it really wasn't, before.
--dm
Maybe I'm misinterpreting what you are asking/saying here but: Will HP or Broadcom have their respective OSS/GNU/Linux drivers released prior to the release of SUSE Linux 10.1 and following editions? Last I knew, SUSE did not make the hardware mentioned nor were they hired to create and maintain the drivers for this hardware. Have you contacted either HP or Broadcom about making OSS/GNU/Linux drivers for these devices and making them available to OSS/GNU/Linux in general? _IF_ these manufacturers provide OSS/GNU/Linux drivers,then SUSE and all the other OSS/GNU/Linux projects and distributions could possibly provide them. Please contribute to OSS/GNU/Linux software by at least buying known supported hardware, and failing that, apply pressure where it needs to be brought to bear: hardware manufacturers that aren't OSS/GNU/OSS compatible. That is a great question to ask: "Is your product OSS/GNU/Linux compatible? And if not, why not?" Maybe they really don't want your business. Getting off the soap box, Stan