Broadcom releases Open Source Wireless Driver

[JustinR]

Hey everybody, I haven't seen a thread on this yet, forgive me if its been posted already!

I thought this was pretty interesting, an open source wireless driver for the new Linux Kernels (+2.6)

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Broadcom-Releases-Open-Source-Wireless-Driver-for-Linux-155826.shtml

[Lucradia]

Now if only Lexmark, Linksys, etc. could follow.

[kaldor]

There was a thread out here a short time ago, but at least this gets the word around a little bit more.

It's such good news.

[beew]

So does it mean it will be in the live iso and when you upgrade you don't have to reinstall the wireless driver?

[JustinR]

So does it mean it will be in the live iso and when you upgrade you don't have to reinstall the wireless driver?

I hope so.

It supports this card: BCM4313, which means it should support the other variants of the BCM43xx family - which is found in almost all Dell laptops and I'm sure many other PC manufacturers. It also supports three other card families so far - so this should be good!

[foxxxy]

It's good to see more open source drivers :)

[Spr0k3t]

Now if only Lexmark, Linksys, etc. could follow.

Just an FYI, Linksys makes most of their products with the Broadcom chipsets.

[ugm6hr]

This is brilliant news....

A commitment to open sourcing all wifi drivers.

[NoBugs!]

Will this new driver be available in 10.10?

[Lucradia]

Will this new driver be available in 10.10?

Highly doubtful.

[v1ad]

you can always update your kernel. but this is definitely good news.