[eside-ghost] Ubuntu Hoary PPC Live CD

[Alejandro López Monge]

Todavía no tenia muy claro por qué Broadcom no liberaba las especificaciones de su AirporExtreme, parece que hay razones <lógicas> para no liberarlos.

Contrary to popular belief, apple does not manafacture their own hardware. its almost always a rebadged chipset of someone else.

This chipset is a broadcom 4301 chipset. The drivers for this chipset can not be released by the manafacturers because this card has the ability to broadcast in a spectrum that is reserved for military use.

Because of this, broadcom imposes these limitations in software. By releasing the specifications on how to get this card to work, they may be inadvertantly allowing people to broadcast on a restricted frequency, and therefore making them liable.

However, it is not all bad news. There are those who are working on the broadcom drivers to provide a free and functional set of drivers for Free operating systems available from http://linux-bcom4301.sourceforge.net. This driver is not in a workable state but it is in development.

Others have tried petitioning broadcom at http://www.petitiononline.com/BCM4301/, to no vail, their hands are tied.

x86 users can use the ndiswrapper, although this driver only works on x86 as it can translate the windows calls into native linux calls, and leave the assembly the same. While this isnt a truely "Free" source, it does work for some people.

Será verdad? Será una excusa? 

Un Saludo 

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 10:31:25 +0200
Pablo Garaizar Sagarminaga <garaizar en eside.deusto.es> wrote:

> Aupa!
> 
>   Solamente comentaros que he probado la Ubuntu Live CD en el ibook y
> es... brutal, lo detecta todo y está makeadísima (nunca mejor dicho).
> Cuando en el arranque de GNOME pone "Ubuntu, Linux for human beings" es
> realmente verdad, se empieza a ver una distro que realmente está pensada
> para humanos, no para frix0rz :-D
> 
> -- 
> Agur
>   Pablo Garaizar Sagarminaga
>   garaizar en eside.deusto.es


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