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[ale] Broadcom is releasing a wireless driver that is GPL!
- Subject: [ale] Broadcom is releasing a wireless driver that is GPL!
- From: greg.freemyer at gmail.com (Greg Freemyer)
- Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 11:44:39 -0400
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