Hi,
On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 at 12:24 +0200, Felix Schwarz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> currently I am using OpenWrt on an Asus WL-500g. One thing I don't like is
> the binary broadcom driver for wifi. Besides ideological inconvenience, I
> have problems getting WPA working and I hope a free driver will improve
> scan results (currently I don't see all networks while scanning - some
> random items are always missing).
We all dislike the binary blob.
> AFAIK the reverse engineered open source broadcom driver needs kernel 2.6.
> So I like to know if switching to a complete open source solution is on the
> current roadmap. Are there other issue which block the transition to free
> drivers?
The open source broadcom driver is not really ready to go with all
features the wl.o binary blob provides. (wds, wpa, ..)
We are planning to provide brcm-2.6 support for devices which either
use atheros wifi or devices which have a mini-pci card.
We will use the backend code from OpenWrt. May be I will start on
the stuff this weekend, maybe not.
bye
Waldemar
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