Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th Dec 2005 20:25 UTC, submitted by Maxi
"Over two years ago a group was founded to reverse engineer the Broadcom Wireless LAN chipsets to provide Linux drivers. This chipset is used by many OEMs, for example in Apple's AirPort Extreme in Power- and iBooks, Linksys' WAP and WRT series of consumer grade wireless routers, various laptops from Acer, Dell, Gateway, HP and others and many more external and internal devices, including CardBus cards. That work has now come (.pdf) to a first milestone as there now is a free (GPL2 or later) Linux driver for a variety of these chipsets."
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RE[4]: This is great news but..
by anonymous_coward on Wed 7th Dec 2005 16:58
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Doh Atheros is a BINARY DRIVER!!!
There is open source atheros driver -> http://ath-driver.org/ It's in early stage but it does not use binary HAL.
RE[5]: This is great news but..
by on Wed 7th Dec 2005 21:04
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RE[4]: This is great news but..
by Soulbender on Thu 8th Dec 2005 02:47
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"One of the reasons that there was no opensource driver released was that open source software would be able to change the operation of the wireless cards..
That's a cop-out exscuse by Broadcom.
Funny how companies like Atheros and Ralink have given out their API spec's for exactly the same kind of wireless cards.
Doh Atheros is a BINARY DRIVER!!!