[RLUG] Gentoo on laptop

[Brian Chrisman]

CodeDragon at runbox.com wrote:

>Thanks guys for all your help. After a successful install I am abandoning installing Linux on my laptop. The death knell came when I found there are no 64 bit drivers for the Broadcom wireless card in the machine. I am at a loss why someone would put together a 64 bit system intended to only run a 32 bit OS and software. I know I could just compile a 32 version of Linux and run, but I would rather just wait to see the 64 bit drivers show up.
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Is there something else to gain from 64 bit drivers?
Retail wireless networks run at 54Mbps max... which isn't close to 
pushing a 32bit PCI bus.... let alone one of the newer ones.  I don't 
imagine it would cause congestion issues for other cards on the bus either.
Is there something wrong with the 32bit drivers?

Personally, I'm not excited about the state of wireless support on 
linux... seems like it's been leapfrogged... probably mainly due to the 
way many wireless chipset makers who release specs to MS, but not to OS 
developers.  That's quite unfortunate.

>Damon
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