RE: Broadcom BCM4306/BCM2050 support

Martin List-Petersen
2003-05-01T13:22:48Z

>> (..) And as Alan and myself have been
>> talking to upper management entities at various wireless card
>> companies we know the real reason has to do with making regulation
>> agencies happy. They do have drivers, and they do want to publish
>> them and yes they recognize that this will expose a lot of their
>> IP and they accept that.
>
> OK. So at least they are open to it. Maybe they should drop a binary
somewhere
> to get a start. It's not what you want in the long term, but I think good
> enough for now. Then we should work something out for the frequency settings.

I totally agree on this. A binary driver could better than nothing at this
point. Another thing that wonders me, is why companies like Broadcom, if they
are so open to releasing the drivers at some point, where they can make the
regulation agencies somewhat happy, are so ignorant then. I've heard of serveral
people, that tried to get a statement on the possibilty for Linux drivers from
then and the return is nothing. I've actually tried myself. No response at all.

Regards,
Martin List-Petersen
martin at list-petersen dot dk
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