Open Firmware Released For Broadcom Wireless

mcgrof writes "Linux developers have announced the release of a reverse-engineered open source firmware for Broadcom 4306 and 4318 wireless hardware, licensed under the GPLv2. '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.' You can go check out and download the firmware at the Italian Universita' Degli Studi Di Brescia Open FirmWare for WiFi networks project page. This is a good example of clean room reverse engineering design where one group worked on specifications while another worked on the the driver and the firmware. Kudos to the specification writers and bcm43xx development team for their hard work."

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[Mister Liberty]

Been face to face with one while modding my Linksys router last couple of days.
Good morning everbody!
First post!

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[GravityStar]

Yeah, Viva la Resistance! Live the life!
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*Goes out for a walk in nature*

this is what drugs do

[FudRucker]

when the owner of Broadcom (or any other company) spends all the extra cash on drugs instead of making better products & drivers to run those products (R & D)...