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On Wednesday 18 June 2008 20:26:10 Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 June 2008 20:06:02 Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> > 2008/6/14, Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > >  Here comes another snapshot of the Opensource firmware for
> > >  the b43 wireless core.
> > >  http://bu3sch.de/b43/openfw/b43-openfw-20080614.tar.bz2
> > >
> > >  The firmware does _ONLY_ work in monitor mode. The TX path is not implemented,
> > >  so it can not associate or whatever. It can only receive packets.
> > 
> > News about Broadcom' new distater-driver and your opensource firmware
> > was posted on our Polish news portal
> > (http://osnews.pl/b43-z-wlasnym-mikrokodem/). Let me make little
> > off-topic here and post a few translated comments, please:
> > 
> > jellonek:
> > > for such a people "hacker" term was introduced.
> > > they would help more documenting chip...
> > 
> > mario:
> > > RESPECT for this man!
> > 
> > Azrael Nightwalker:
> > > Fucgreat!
> > 
> > Great work Michael, thanks for your work! I'm extremly happy having
> > notebook with so well supported wifi :)
> 
> Thanks. ;)
> 
> But IMO "well supported wifi" is something else. Broadcom would appear
> in this story, if this was well supported. :)
> 

Oh and let's not forget Johannes and his brother. They play a _major_
role in firmware reverse engineering. Most credit should go to them.
They did / are doing the hardest work.


-- 
Greetings Michael.
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