On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 18:41:54 +0200, Tobias Powalowski wrote:

Hi http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php just found this on the net, would you guys like to see this drivers in core?

If a native english speaker could look at the license of the binary blob on

redistribution, we could integrate those drivers.

I don't have such hardware, so someone else would need to test functionality. your opinions on it?

greetings tpowa

I would love to see these in core. From what I have read of the license, we are allowed to distribute them; however I know nothing about licenses! I have compiled these on my laptop and I get about 2.5MB down with these vs a flex of 900KB - 2.2MB with the b43 module. The ssb module conflicts with this driver, but you need it for b44 (which is the broadcom ethernet driver)! So when using this module you must decide if you want wireless or ethernet (if you use the b44 module, like I do)! I have attached a pkgbuild I started to work on. It is very poorly written, however it is a start, haha!