Hi, all. Sorry if this has been discussed before, but I checked the archives and couldn't find anything.
I just found out that Broadcom released an official Linux driver: http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php Now, the license it's under is fairly obviously not F/OSS (besides, it comes with a binary blob), so it's not going to kill b43 or anything. I don't know how *good* it actually is, I haven't tried it yet. However, the real point that occurred to me is firmware. Presumably, this thing has firmware in it somewhere. Has anyone considered whether we could extract the firmware from this for use with b43, rather than from the Windows driver? The license this driver is under is not F/OSS, but it's not as restrictive as the license on the Windows driver. It explicitly allows redistribution, in unmodified form. So it wouldn't be okay to extract the firmware from this driver and just package that, but distros *could* package the entire driver (without ever actually using it) and then automatically extract the firmware from it when setting up b43. This would finally solve the Firmware Minefield issue caused by distros not being able to ship firmware for b43 in any way. Has anyone looked at this? Is it possible? Am I way off base? :) Thanks! -- adamw _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
