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2009/10/19 Russell Knighton <russell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Great news that this is now truly under-way - but, at the risk of sounding cheeky, is there an estimated merge date on this (or any progress information you can share)? I have a broadcom BCM4322 and would like to get involved in any possible testing, or at the very least be able to check the progress on this.
>
> Thanks for all your hard work - your skill and efforts are highly appreciated by us end users!
>
> Russell
>

Only reverse-engineering is happening at this point - actual
development can only start once reverse-engineering is done. (And even
then, we will need to find someone to actually write the code for
N-PHY, as I'm not sure that I will have enough free time to do it
myself, and Michael seems to have practically abandoned the project.)

> 2009/10/18 Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Chriss Kalogeropoulos
>> <iz.iznogood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > i have an i-mac using Broadcom's BCM4328 chip.
>> >
>> > lspci gives:
>> >
>> > 03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4328
>> > 802.11a/b/g/n [14e4:4328] (rev 01)
>> >
>> > This must have been answered before but i thought to ask in case
>> > something has changed. Any hope on getting support on that chip with an
>> > open source driver ?
>> >
>> > Please cc me since i am not a subscriber on the list.
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance
>> >
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>>
>> This is an N-PHY card. Reverse-engineering of N-PHY cards is still in
>> progress (though it is finally really "in progress", and not stalled
>> anymore), and it needs to be finished (at least the G part) before we
>> can work on implementing it.
>>
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