Broadcom releases an open-source driver for its wireless chipsets

Broadcom - long seen as the last big proprietary holdout in the area of wireless networking - has announced the availability of a fully open driver for its current 802.11n 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." It's going into the staging tree initially. (Thanks to Luis Rodriguez).

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