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New Linux Broadcom Wi-Fi drivers arrive
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| 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.
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/new_linux_broadcom_wi_fi_drivers_arrive
They realise that it's getting very popular and they can't afford not to supply
Linux drivers. A new lesson in the versatility of Linux:
Linux Robot - Watch this space
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| The device will need some kind of cache - it’s last 100 actions where
| an ‘action’ might be 100msec of wheel movement. Should the device lose its
| base station, it should attempt to start reversing those actions until it
| reaches the base station. It will also require some basic common sense as to
| roughly how it got to wherever it’s sitting so it can reverse on it to locate
| the base station rather than aimlessly getting lost.
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http://www.adamsinfo.com/linux-robot-watch-this-space/
Recent:
Broadcom Switches to the Light Side: The Start of a New Era?
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| Although Broadcom had very good in-house Linux drivers for its wireless
| cards, which it sold to manufacturers of wireless routers that ran on Linux,
| it refused to release the drivers to the community, even in binary-only form,
| or to provide documentation that would assist Linux users in writing their
| own drivers. Consequently, ndiswrapper was for many years the only way to
| get Broadcom cards running on Ubuntu and other distributions.
|
| [...]
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| Many individuals, especially die-hard disciples of Richard Stallman, will
| argue that Broadcom still has a ways to go if it wants to prove that it’s
| serious about Linux support. The source of its drivers remains essentially
| closed, with their future status unclear. As the Ubuntu developer
| writes, “It’s hard to go on a company’s word that they will open a driver up
| and play nice, especially Broadcom.”
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| All the same, these drivers are a concrete example of the legitimacy that
| Ubuntu has gained, thanks in large part to the leverage that Canonical
| enjoys. This isn’t to say that 2009 will become the elusive Year of the
| Linux Desktop, but it’s certainly a step in the right direction.
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http://www.workswithu.com/2008/10/02/broadcom-switches-to-the-light-side-the-start-of-a-new-era/
SEC charges Broadcom founder, gen counsel
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| The men schemed from 1998 to 2003 to secretly backdate stock option grants,
| which forced the company to eventually restate its financial results and
| report more than $2 billion in extra compensation expenses, the SEC said in a
| statement.
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http://uk.reuters.com/article/technology-media-telco-SP/idUKN1451854920080515
Broadcom Demonstrates Support for All Key Mobile Phone Open Operating Systems
on Its Single-Chip Smartphone Solution
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| ...demonstrate support for the three most popular open operating systems
| (OpenOSs) on its innovative and cost effective third generation (3G) cellular
| design platform...
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http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-11-2008/0004753009&EDATE=
http://tinyurl.com/2qvqou
Linux-Based VoIP Partnership Announced
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| Chipmaker Broadcom and software developer Trolltech this week formed a
| partnership to create a multimedia voice over IP development platform based
| on Linux.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=205601431
Related:
Broadcom aims advanced comm chips at Linux handsets
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| Jim Tran, GM of mobile communications at Broadcom, added, "Broadcom has a
| long history of working closely within the Linux community on advanced
| communications products."
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5018305716.html
Broadcom Joins the LiMo Foundation as a Leading Semiconductor Provider for
Mobile Linux(R) Solutions
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| Broadcom Corporation, a global leader in semiconductors for wired and
| wireless communications, today announced that it has joined the LiMo
| Foundation as one of its first semiconductor suppliers.
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http://www.stockhouse.ca/news/news.asp?tick=VOD&newsid=6113695
65nm "STB-on-a-chip" runs Linux
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| Broadcom is sampling a highly integrated system-on-chip (SoC) for cable,
| satellite, and IP set-top boxes (STBs). Built on outsourced 65nm process
| technology, the BCM7405 "STB-on-a-chip" is based on a 400MHz MIPS32/16e
| processor core, runs Linux, and supports numerous video compression standards
| as well as networked personal video recorder (PVR) functionality.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2059877832.html
Broadcom to Bring ARM Cortex-A8 to Powerful Videocore Mobile Multimedia
Product Line
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| In addition to its robust processing power, the Cortex-A8 processor is
| fully supported by the ARM RealView(R) Development Suite enabling OEMs
| to deliver rich content to Linux-based devices that fully exploit
| the high-performance Cortex-A8 processor with significantly reduced
| memory footprint. The ability to seamlessly build Linux application
| libraries with the compilation tools in the RealView Development
| Suite enables developers to maximize the performance of key elements
| of their code base, ultimately providing end customers with highly
| responsive Linux devices that have an exceptionally long battery life.
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http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=198693
Broadcom Demonstrates Linux OS Support on Its CellAirity Platform for Low
Cost Smartphone Handsets
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| Broadcom Corporation, a global leader in semiconductors for wired
| and wireless communications, today announced that it will
| demonstrate the flexibility of its cellular platform with a
| new reference design that can run powerful applications on the Linux
| operating system.
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http://www.finanznachrichten.de/nachrichten-2007-02/artikel-7748243.asp
Broadcom samples one-chip HSDPA smartphone silicon
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| At 3GSM this week, Broadcom unveiled a smartphone SoC (system-on-chip)
| that integrates an HSPDA baseband modem with application, audio,
| and multimedia processors on a single monolithic chip.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3387753378.html
Broadcom Offers Linux BSP for Wi-Fi Phone Chipset
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| Broadcom has said that the Broadcom Wi-Fi phone chipset has been
| selected by Samsung for its new line of consumer and small business
| Wi-Fi phones.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/News/Mobile/Broadcom_Offers_Linux_BSP_for_WiFi_Phone_Chipset
Broadcom app processor targets Linux phones
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| The company offers a variety of Linux-based software and middleware for
| the chip... The BCM2820 is now sampling to early access customers, along
| with a development kit that includes a Linux BSP, a suite of multimedia
| codecs, and application software.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7357900819.html
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