Is SalixOS a fully subsidiary of the Linux kernel team, of Greg K-H, or of the Censorship and Propaganda Committee of the Communist Party?

Incremental updates of the kernel (not like upgrading from 2.6.18 to 2.6.32) should NOT involve such tremendous API changes as to break existing drivers. Common-sense logic says that not even recompilation should be done, but in Linux land this is not the case. After 25 years of computing, I am ...

Eeach time you update your kernel and reboot the machine akmod will generate the new packages needed for the new kernel. Have you ever tried to get informed on the difference between a kmod and an akmod ? An akmod triggers a recompilation without needing interaction from the user.

As for the non ...

From reading on the broadcom page it says that the sta driver is peculiar to the kernal being used. If you update your kernal you have to start over. Sounds like a lot more troube than using ndiswrapper.

You might want to check out this page: http://slackbuilds.com/repository/13.0/network/broadcom ...

The Broadcom STA drivers are (1) officially written by Broadcom for Linux and (2) working way better than anything else. Using Windows drivers on Linux is just mental debility, I hate ndiswrapper with all my body cells, and I NEVER EVER use wireless in Linux UNLESS there are NATIVE drivers available ...

When this driver is called "hybrid", this means that part of the code is not code, it's a binary blob.

Oh boy. You're very kind, but if you're not familiar with the so-called "hybrid" Broadcom STA driver http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php we should better wait for someone who actually has such a wireless chip and is familiar with all the details.

Ubuntu has such a driver available ...

Is there any chance for SalixOS to get a broadcom-wl (Broadcom STA) driver?

In so many regards SalixOS is unlike Slackware -- i.e. it automagically works, no configuration or compiling required --, except for wireless.

Salix lacks the very useful xfce4-xkb-plugin, see:

http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel- ... xkb-plugin

http://rlworkman.net/pkgs/13.0/i486/xfc ... -1_rlw.tgz

May I ask for a similar package I am very fond of? MELD :
Slacky has 1.2.1 for Slackware 12.2: http://www.slacky.eu/aadm/pkgs/index.php?pkg=1826&ver=6
Homepage: http://meld.sf.net

Last version is 1.3.0.

I have to admit that these days I have NO time to play with Salix, but I plan to change ...