Thanks guys. It's great to know that this patch will be in this
backports module available for Hardy. It does solve the problem for me
personally, since I'll add the ppa to my repositories list, and will
install the new package from Tim as soon as it is available. I'm still
concerned about the sheer number of laptop users that have broadcom
chipsets that are affected by this. Adding unsigned code from a ppa
repository is not a new trick for me, but it certainly is less friendly
than desired for new Ubuntu users. Since Intrepid is obviously using
2.6.26 (or greater), this only affects Hardy or earlier distributions.
Officially, I believe Dapper Dan (which was a LTS release), Fiesty Fawn,
and Gutsy Gibbon are still supported, so that means they are affected as
well. Does this mean we should add these to the affects list? I
believe the compat-wireless pack is for all kernels >= 2.6.22 or above,
and that the developers plan on supporting all the way back to 2.6.18.
I kind of skipped Edgy Eft and Fiesty Fawn, so I dont' know which
distributions use which kernels. I did use Gutsy Gibbon, and it was
2.6.24, so it falls into this category. It becomes a moot point if
there aren't any affected users.
It seems to me that almost every current AMD-based laptop on the market
is using broadcom wireless chipsets, and the Intel based ones are using
Intel wireless chipsets to get the logo compliance they need for those
nifty little stickers like "Centrino inside". So one of my concerns is
that the solution still seems difficult for new linux/Ubuntu users, and
that it can hurt in winning over market share for linux/debian/Ubuntu,
etc.
Still having it in a maintained repository (even a PPA one), is better
than requiring people to compile, and takes away the work for most of us
when we the kernel abi gets bumped for a security fix. So thanks again,
guys!!!
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Hardy)
Status: Won't Fix => In Progress
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