broadcom 802.11g driver for ppc

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Wed Dec 14 18:25:11 UTC 2005


On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 07:25:03PM +0100, Paul Wouters wrote:
 > gpl linux driver:
 > http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/
 > 
 > Is anyone working on adding this to the ppc tree? (maybe in Core?)

The authors have requested that distros don't package it for
the time being, for the same reason it isn't upstream yet,
it's very unstable, and lacks many features (iirc, it can only
do 'G', no A or B yet)

 > Or else I could package this up.
 > 
 > Would there be any legal issues including this kernel module?

It's been cleanroom reverse engineered, so there shouldn't be.

		Dave




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