[ale] Broadcom is releasing a wireless driver that is GPL!

Greg Freemyer greg.freemyer at gmail.com
Mon Oct 4 11:44:39 EDT 2010


This may be old news, but I just saw it when reading about new
features expected in 2.6.37:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=128404502308426&w=3

I know laptops use a lot of broadcom wireless chipsets, so this is
great news as far as I'm concerned.

If you don't know the current status with broadcom gear, it's a mess.
IIRC, I think their are 3 drivers available.  One fully GPL, one is
partially gpl, and the third is closed.  I hope the above means we can
see a consolidation to one driver eventually for broadcom.

Greg


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