Messages in this thread | | | From | Alistair John Strachan <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks | Date | Mon, 14 Nov 2005 18:38:57 +0000 |
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On Monday 14 November 2005 18:29, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > LWN has a piece on the possible options, but I suppose you could use the > > argument that forcibly breaking ndiswrapper will spur new driver > > development (but if you look at vendors like Broadcom, they have seem > > consistently unwilling to do this). > > there now is a specification for the broadcom wireless, and a driver is > being written right now to that specification; and it seems to be > getting along quite well (it's not ready for primetime use yet but at > least they can send and receive stuff, which is probably the hardest > part)
Great news. Perhaps all is not lost. This seems to be a leading chip for laptop wireless, which is an especially contentious issue (since users cannot swap it out as easily due to BIOS locks).
-- Cheers, Alistair.
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