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 changed:
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--- Comment #6 from Jiri Benc 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.
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