Open source firmware for Broadcom wireless adapters

Many people complain about the problem of binary firmware blobs; the folks at the OpenFWWF project are doing something about it. They have just released an early implementation of a free firmware load for Broadcom 802.11b and 802.11g boards. "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 (and ease our writing...)." (Thanks to Luis Rodriguez).

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