Re: [gentoo-user] Re: broadcom-sta and the 3.6.x kernel

["Dustin C. Hatch" <admiralnemo@gmail.com>]

On 12/11/2012 03:04, Nuno J. Silva wrote:
> On 2012-12-07, Mick wrote:
>> This sounds scary!!!  Isn't there a way of disabling this feature in
>> the BIOS?
>
> With HP, you don't even get a BIOS setup. You get something that tells
> you the processor temperature and possibly lets you change the boot
> order.
>
That's exactly the case with this notebook. No settings whatsoever 
beyond date/time and boot order.
>> Have you spoken to the HP police to ask what they can do to allow you to
>> manage the machine you bought from them?  O_O
>
> I guess I could do that too. I find it a bit annoying that they don't
> even offer a BIOS setup and then decide to silently flip some of the
> settings with BIOS upgrades (like disabling AMD-V...)
>
This machine is long since out of warranty; they won't even speak to me 
anymore. I was able to use a hex editor to modify the white list at one 
time, but it didn't matter because the "hardware" radio switch doesn't 
work with different cards, either, leaving the radio in a permanently 
off state.

Someday, I'll get a more professional notebook, but until then, I'm 
stuck with the patched broadcom-sta. It does seem to be working fine for 
now, so I'm not terribly worried. As much as I would prefer to have an 
open source driver, I also need my machine to work.

-- 
♫Dustin