Re: Linux Incompatibility List

Lee Revell
2004-08-21T21:19:03Z

On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 17:06, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-08-21 16:51:57 -0400, Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>
> wrote in message <20040821205157.GA9300@animx.eu.org>:
> > > Nvidia. AFAIK all nvidia Linux drivers are either binary-only or
> > > reverse-engineered.
> >
> > True, however, their video cards *DO* work on linux (even though it is
> > binary-only). I have a laptop that has the chip. Does any broadcom
> > wireless chip work on linux (ndis wrapper or that piece of junk from
> > linuxant doesn't count)
>
> Right, binary-only drivers and/or GPLed/OSS drivers should be counted
> separately. Think about AVM's ISDN cards (very popular over here in
> Germany, but the newer products require a CAPI-only binary-only
> driver:-(
>

Are there still vendors who release 'open source' drivers, but with
preprocessed, obfuscated source code? If so then there should be a
category for this.

Lee