Henry Ptasinski <henryp@...> writes: > > Broadcom would like to announce the initial release of a fully-open > Linux driver for it's latest generation of 11n chipsets. The driver, > while still a work in progress, is released as full source and uses the > native mac80211 stack. It supports multiple current chips (BCM4313, > BCM43224, BCM43225) as well as providing a framework for supporting > additional chips in the future, including mac80211-aware embedded chips. > The README and TODO files included with the sources provide more > details about the current feature set, known issues, and plans for > improving the driver. > > The driver is currently available in staging-next git tree, available at: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-next-2.6.git > > in the drivers/staging/brcm80211 directory. This is limited to newer chips. Can you at least authorize redistribution of firmware blobs for older chips so that b43-fwcutter won't be needed anymore? I have such a laptop myself with one of the older chips, and I remember the pains of having to download it after booting from a LiveCD. -- 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
