To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
From: Yuhong Bao <yuhongbao_386@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ANN] Full-source Broadcom wireless driver for 11n chips
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:49:14 +0000 (UTC)
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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.