Time to party! *blows party whistle* Rejoice fellow Broadcom users! This is the best news I’ve heard all day:
Now Dell, with some help from Broadcom and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has just released a Linux friendly Broadcom Wi-Fi driver for both 32 and 64-bit Linuxes. According to John Hull, Dell’s Manager of Linux OS Engineering, “updated Linux wireless drivers that support cards based on the Broadcom 4311, 4312, 4321, and 4322 chipsets” are now available. – from Computerworld, New Linux Broadcom Wifi Drivers Arrive
Though these drivers are not completely open source, at least we have something that we could use. Some might think it’s going against Free Software. As a practical consideration, this is good.
I’d guess that many laptop owners would be jumping for joy any time now. :D We could download them from the Broadcom site or from the Ubuntu repositories. It will be part of the Ubuntu 8.10 release but it’s also expected to become available for Ubuntu 8.04.
May we have happier times going online with the new Broadcom drivers!
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