Re: 12" G4 iBook - AirPort Extreme support
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 10:43, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 19:56, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> > On mer, 2003-11-19 at 22:23, Thomas Otto wrote:
> > > > - AirPort Extreme support
> > >
> > > IIRC this won't happen since Broadcom is refusing to release specs for
> > > it :/ (which is why I'll stick to my 700Mhz G3 iBook).
> > >
> > > See
> > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2003/debian-powerpc-200308/msg00789.html
> > >
> > > ...maybe write a mail to Apple/Broadcom for some larting.
> >
> > Apple probably don't give a sh*t to the problem. Otherwise we would have
> > the driver in Darwin...
> >
> > As for Broadcom, I'm not sure it'll be easy. They apparently don't care
> > at all.
>
> Not only they don't care enough to do even a binary driver, but they
> also are completely opposed to the idea of having an open source one
> or giving up specs.
hmmhh but why did they write a GPLed bcm4401 driver then ? I mean where
is the difference for them in supporting one device but not the other ?!
Soeren.
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