-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hal Murray wrote: >> Right; that's the problem. I doubt it would work on those distros >> without a lot of work. Basically, if you want an XO mesh >> interoperable device that's _not_ using the Marvell Libertas 8388 >> chipset, you need full access to the driver source, and if the device >> is a fullmac chip, the firmware sources too. I'd imagine most softmac >> cards would be much easier to deal with because the smarts are in the >> driver, not the firmware. > > Frys/Outpost.com has the Linksys WRT54GL for $60. It has a Broadcom > BCM2050KWL. (I think. That's from the web with nothing in hand to verify > but I haven't found any conflicting opinions either.) > > Broadcom's press release (2002) says it's a 802.11a/b chipset > http://www.broadcom.com/press/release.php?id=315414 > > Broadcom has a long track record of being very not-open with specs so I'm > more than a bit suspicious. > > I pulled over the tar file from Linksys but haven't found the sources for the > driver yet. Probably I got the wrong tar file. > > Is that driver open enough to make this sort of hacking possible? Is there a > box at a similar pricepoint that uses a more open chipset? > > >
The Broadcom Linux driver used on the Linux-based WRT54G units is proprietary software. (shame on Linus for not stomping on those) There is mostly working Free software driver at: http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/ and it might soon replace the proprietary driver on the OpenWRT, dd-wrt, etc. linksys router community distros. - -- Regards, Andrew Clunis -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF/Fu4ALkUMXSNow8RAvAMAKCzD1bs2g+eK/SPkvyZ/qmexBDQJwCcDKyL 9qmbM6Xe5X1IR8CYSocbzyU= =FjZa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
