Broadcom releases an open-source driver for its wireless chipsets

From: "Henry Ptasinski" <henryp-dY08KVG/lbpWk0Htik3J/w-AT-public.gmane.org> To: devel-tBiZLqfeLfOHmIFyCCdPziST3g8Odh+X-AT-public.gmane.org, linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA-AT-public.gmane.org Subject: [ANN] Full-source Broadcom wireless driver for 11n chips Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 08:10:06 -0700 Message-ID: <4C88F8CE.5090708@broadcom.com> Cc: "Henry Ptasinski" <henryp-dY08KVG/lbpWk0Htik3J/w-AT-public.gmane.org> Archive-link: Article, Thread

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. --- Henry Ptasinski henryp-dY08KVG/lbpWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html