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Date:      Fri, 25 Apr 2003 17:42:47 +0200
From:      Thomas Quinot <thomas@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        Thomas Quinot <thomas@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Dell Inspiron 8500
Message-ID:  <20030425154247.GA19826@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <200304251651.23535.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Le 2003-04-25, Daniel O'Connor écrivait :

> I don't really care about the wireless doodad but the ethernet is pretty 
> important.

Same here.
 
> Is the Linux driver open source?

Yep, it is a GPL'd driver Broadcom makes available to OEMs. See eg:
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/G.Wilford/Inspiron8500/#Ethernet_-_Broadcom_4401_4401:1028_

Version 2.0.0 seems to have a reasonably clean separation between
OS-specific and OS-independent stuff. Might be worth trying to port.

Thomas.

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    Thomas.Quinot@Cuivre.FR.EU.ORG



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