Broadcom has released source for their wireless driver

[Tyler Aviss]

I caught this on slash. I had a laptop that once only worked with the
broadcom-developed driver, which tended to do funky things and drop
out or crash at times.

Then the "free" driver started to work for my laptop, it did a few
other funky things, but was generally more reliable than the one from
Broadcomm.

Hopefully with the sources from Broadcomm, the open-source "bcm"
drivers can be improved and the end result will be more stable (and
built-in). They're probably one of the most prevalent vendors of
"cheap" wifi chipsets, so plenty of mini's, HP's, Dells,  and others
use them (heck the laptop I have now uses a BCM4322)... so released a
'nix driver, and now open-sourcing the driver is actually a really big
step and a great thing for desktop linux.

Thanks broadcomm!



On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:04 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> (found via Slashdot and OSNews
> <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/55418>
>
> We've had reverse engineered drivers already but they have not been
> able to do the base-station side of things (STA??).  I hope that this
> means OpenWRT can work on more wireless routers without using the
> binary module.
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