2013/4/19 Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx>: > I was certain I'd heard about support going in, clearly my memory is > wrong. Searching around, you asked this question before. Sorry to > mislead you. > Not worry. Thanks for answers. > There are two ways that support for your card will happen: > 1. The b43 developers will finish reverse engineering it and release > support for it. > 2. Broadcom will release support through the brcmsmac driver. > > Option 1 will take some time, this is not easy work, you might be able > to help with the development, but it's _very_ technical work. That > said, if you can compile a kernel, you can help with the testing once > all the code starts to get together. I believe that Rafał is working > on this and have CC'd him. If somebody provide me steps that i need to to - i'm ready to help. > > Option 2 may take some time as we're waiting for Broadcom. Arend is > their main person here, I've also CC'd him. > Hmm , as i see broadcom not very interesting with opensource =( (i have broadcom cardreader in my notebook and its not respond when insert card..., bug stays open...) > If you're desperate for a good wireless connection on that laptop > right now, your best bet is to buy yourself a cheap USB card, I > personally recommend ones with Atheros chipsets as they're very well > supported and tend to work well. TP-Link make some cheap and good > ones like the TL-WN821N and TL-WN822N. Thanks. But IMHO i have adapter with bluetooth and wifi integrated (as i think) and buy wifi+bluetooth in russia not very simple =) -- Vasiliy Tolstov, e-mail: v.tolstov@xxxxxxxxx jabber: vase@xxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
