Fwd: [ANN] Full-source Broadcom wireless driver for 11n chips

[Tim Gardner]

On 09/09/2010 08:18 AM, Tim Gardner wrote:
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>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [ANN] Full-source Broadcom wireless driver for 11n chips
> Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 08:10:06 -0700
> From: Henry Ptasinski<henryp at broadcom.com>
> To: devel at linuxdriverproject.org, linux-wireless at vger.kernel.org
> CC: Henry Ptasinski<henryp at broadcom.com>
>
> Broadcom would like to announce the initial release of a fully-open
> Linux driver for it's latest generation of 11n chipsets.  The driver,
> while still a work in progress, is released as full source and uses the
> native mac80211 stack.   It supports multiple current chips (BCM4313,
> BCM43224, BCM43225) as well as providing a framework for supporting
> additional chips in the future, including mac80211-aware embedded chips.
>     The README and TODO files included with the sources provide more
> details about the current feature set, known issues, and plans for
> improving the driver.
>
> The driver is currently available in staging-next git tree, available at:
>
> 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-next-2.6.git
>
> in the drivers/staging/brcm80211 directory.
>
> ---
> Henry Ptasinski
> henryp at broadcom.com
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This driver is actually in the staging-next branch of staging-next-2.6.git

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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com