From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 18:52:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 18:52:40 -0500 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:50184 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 18:52:27 -0500 Subject: Re: HomePNA 2.0 flamage To: joe@gnacademy.tzo.org (Joseph Wang) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 23:54:16 +0000 (GMT) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: from "Joseph Wang" at Jan 08, 2001 05:35:10 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > This doesn't seem to be the case with HomePNA 2.0 which makes me suspect > that Broadcom has a patent on some critical piece of technology. I Quite possible. Search for 'broadcom intel patent lawsuit' on google - there are other outstanding things. > can't think of any other reason how they seem to have a defacto monopoly > on HomePNA 2.0 products. This is bad because HomePNA 1.0 products > are becoming increasingly difficult to find. I suspect homepna is dead to be honest. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/