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Above comment is a little miss informed. First off I will not take a hostile tone. Were all here using Linux lets take our frustrations out on closed source venders. I was the one who posted the rather long reply. Why don't you complain to broadcom,intel,marvell,ti. I'm assuming you have one of they're cards. They're the ones who decided they don't want they're hardware to work with OS's other then windows. You should be complaining to these companies to release specifications for they're equipment. I mean we don't need them to write drivers we in the Linux community can do that. "Linux progress is being held hostage by two groups: proprietary software makers who fear their profits will be somehow hurt by selling products that work on linux and purists who feel that there is something holy about "pure" open source and actively work against proprietary involvement." Well first off these are hardware vendors. They could release specifications for they're hardware so it could work on multiple operating systems. Hell these hardware vendors don't even want you using Linux to begin with. Now your complaining it dosen't work under linux. Of course it dosen't right out of the box and thats not the linux developers fault. Have you ever taken any assemly level course work. DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW HARD IT IS TO REVERSE ENGINEER SOMETHING!!! Second point "Linux purists" are holding Linux back. What like the people who wrote the GPL, have done most of the programming in the Linux Kernel. Linux is about 4 freedoms and you can look them up on the FSF. Long history has shown that incorporating these binary blobs is not the best approach in the long run. Where do you stop incorporating binary only features, the wireless lan, the video card, the sound card, networking, the kernel. If you keep accepting these features your eventually going to move away from the advantages of Linux. The ability to examine code for errors. You cannot do that with binary blobs. "Just make it work damn it" Try Vista then. You can just make it work but it might break and you won't know why. I want more people using Linux but not at the expense that it compromises it core values. I really don't want property involvment with the Kernel. What happens when you have tons of code in binary and your company goes under. Example Diamon/S3 anyone have one of they're video cards. But like I said were here to help. I posted earlier you get one of the above mentioned cards and you won't have these issues. IT WILL WORK WITH ANY DISTRO!!! I'm not here to start a flame war. I want to help and I can see your frustration but lets take out on the vendors who are Linux unfriendly.

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