Good news from Broadcom

[Detonate]

http://tuxteam.com/2010/09/10/broadc...e-right-thing/

[GreyGeek]

Re: Good news from Broadcom

and here.

As comments on those sites point out, this release is only for the new wireless devices. The old or legacy Broadcoms (4312, etc...) still have to use the b43-wadcutter application.

<snide remark>I'm sure Broadcom has open sourced these drivers because they realize Linux has barely crossed 1% of the desktop market share and thus may someday become a vialable market for their products.</snide remark>

NOT!

I believe their real reason for doing so is because they bean counted the loss they suffer when they ignore 12+% & 35% of the market (desktop AND servers)

[Snowhog]

Re: Good news from Broadcom

Just follow the $$$$$$$$$

[ardvark71]

Re: Good news from Broadcom

Hi all...

It's a step in the right direction, though, and I'm glad to see it.

Regards...

[mmmmna]

Re: Good news from Broadcom

I REALLY regret losing an email message (was well over a year ago) from Broadcom tech support where the tech support email response explicitly stated they had released engineering level drivers for my BCM4306; the message went on to say they wondered why nobody knew where the drivers went. I replied asking for a copy of what had been released, and I then got a different tech support person who denied everything.

At least the future of Broadcom WiFi on Linux looks decent.

FWIW, Broadcom makes a universal Bluetooth chip (such as is sold by Rocketfish inside their RF-MRBTAD) that works pretty slick in Kubuntu 10.04. As Murphys law would have it, the KDE Bluetooth stuff keeps crashing and crashing and crashing, but when it isn't crashed, the adapter is pretty decent.