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Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 18:09:59 +0200
From: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
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To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
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Subject: Re: Wireless support
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Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

>On Tuesday, 9 of August 2005 15:52, Kyle Moffett wrote:
>  
>
>>On Aug 9, 2005, at 05:09:55, Jochen Friedrich wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Third, both ndiswrapper and binary-only drivers only work on one  
>>>platform.
>>>
>>>E.g. broadcom has a binary-only driver for their WLAN card on  
>>>Linux, but
>>>only for mipsel (wrt54g).
>>>
>>>On Alpha or PowerPC, most WLAN equipment doesn't work under Linux,  
>>>at all.
>>>      
>>>
>>Definitely.  I want my Airport Extreme to work!  Many users of the  
>>BCM4301 chip can get it to work (kinda) with Linux via ndiswrapper,
>>but that means they are much less likely to participate in any kind of
>>reverse engineering effort,
>>    
>>
>
>Do you know of anyone actually doing it?
>
>Rafael
>
>  
>

See http://linux-bcom4301.sourceforge.net/

Jochen