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Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:55:12 +0100
From: "Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>
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Subject: Re: bcm4331 firmware installer package
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On 12/21/2011 07:52 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> 2011/12/21 Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>:
>>
>> The bcm4331 support in b43 is pretty new so I do not expect distros are
>> providing packages for it. Your best bet is to get linux-firmware repo
>> from git.kernel.org. Probably the b43 developers can point you to the
>> specific firmware file you need to use for that phy.
> 
> Arend: I'm not sure how to say it nice... but there is only one
> company starting with "B" having copyrights to the BCM4331 firmware.
> Only this company can legally submit BCM4331 firmware to
> linux-firmware repo.
> 

Hi Rafał,

That is nicely said and absolutely right. Sorry about that.

Gr.AvS