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Broadcom releases an open-source driver for its wireless chipsets

Broadcom releases an open-source driver for its wireless chipsets

Posted Sep 9, 2010 16:52 UTC (Thu) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750)
Parent article: Broadcom releases an open-source driver for its wireless chipsets

Huge progress. The only real gripe with my Dell Latitude 2110 (shipped with Ubuntu) has been the Broadcom's wl driver - which generates a large amount of CPU wakeups even when idle, and as the biggest irritation takes 20-30s after resume from suspend (or during boot up) to find and connect to a network.

I hope that brcm80211 will be part of http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download#Where_to_downl... very soon now.


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