On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 05:42:46AM -0700, Mark Symonds wrote: > > Broadcom is in serious need of a full-frontal attack. > > Everyone should check for them before buying hardware, > And if you 'dmidecode | grep -i broadcom' gives or says anything, > spend your money elsewhere. > > Or take it back to the store - and tell them why. > (Proprietary, crap Broadcom chips) > > We should not buy anything with "Broadcom" chips. Ever. > We paid for this hardware, only to be sabotaged by their firmtware. Are there any bluetooth-equipped laptops that fit that criteria? Most of them run some Broadcom chip or other for bluetooth, to my knowledge. In any case, non-wifi Broadcom things are actually pretty workable -- my Ideapad Y410's ethernet controller is a Broadcom, running using the tg3 kernel module that is included in the Linux kernel by default. -- Kind regards, Loong Jin
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