Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 01:40:04PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> While a lot of work remains to be done (mostly on the softmac, read on),
> a bunch of people are actually using the driver under linux now to get
> access to the internet. So here's the official announcement:
>
> http://bcm-specs.sipsolutions.net/announcement.pdf
>
> The main berlios website is currently down, but the code can still be
> downloaded from svn://svn.berlios.de/bcm43xx/trunk/, and you can see the
> README (for example) at
> http://svn.berlios.de/wsvn/bcm43xx/trunk/driver/README?op=file
Downloaded (2.6.15-rc5, bcm43xx, bcm43xx-fwcutter, softmac), compiled, and
associated.
The max. transfer ratio i get is around 500KB/s, but it is better than a
zd1211 which seems to Oops my kernel and poweroff my machine every other time
i connect with it.
Cheers, and thanks!
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