Broadcom has released drivers to it's newest wify as free softwre

[Felipe Sanches]

but the firmware remains non-free, right?!

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Quiliro Ordóñez <quiliro at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/55418
>
> 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.
>
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