Opensource Firmware Released For Broadcom Wireless

Jan 12, 2009, 16:05 (0 Talkback[s])

"Although the base firmware is not fully 802.11 compliant, e.g., it does not support RTS/CTS procedure or QoS, we believe that someone could be interested in testing it. The firmware does not require the kernel to be modified and it uses the same shared memory layout and global registers usage of the original stuff from broadcom to ease loading by the b43 driver."

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