Hi. Is it possible to modify b43-fwcutter to extract firmware from the Broadcom's STA driver? http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php
I'm asking about that because Canonical is distributing this driver as part of the Ubuntu CDs, so it would be possible to have a working b43 driver without having to download the firmware from the internet (the paradox of requiring to have an internet connection to install a network driver). http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/karmic/bcmwl http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/bcmwl-kernel-source Did anyone try to use the firmware from this driver in the b43 driver? If not, would anyone be willing to try? As far as I understand, the License of this driver allows distribution in unmodified form, so the package manager of any linux distro could run b43-fwcutter on the STA driver and extract the firmware for use in the b43 driver. What do you think about it? Would that make sense? Or are there any legal or technical obstacles that would block it? Does this driver differ that much from the one that is used currently to extract the firmware? http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2 Regards -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki >><< Azrael Nightwalker ## # jabber: azrael[na]jabster.pl | tlen: azrael29a # ### www: http://reksio.ftj.agh.edu.pl/~azrael/ ### _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
