Stefan Sperling <[email protected]> writes: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 12:47:57PM +0200, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas wrote: >> IIUC BCM43* nics could have been supported if development efforts hadn't >> been killed by licensing issues. I doubt there are developers who want >> to work on this anymore. > > You're probably referring to the b43 Linux driver story from years ago. > Our bwi(4) has nothing to do with that. It was ported from DragonflyBSD.
I was thinking about bcw(4). > I believe the BCM43224 chip could be supported by bwn(4) in FreeBSD and > definitely brcmsmac in Linux, both of which have a suitable licence. Not sure about bwn(4), according to their online manpage, but indeed the license of the linux driver seems appropriate[1]. > Of course, there's a non-trivial amount of work involved in porting either > of these drivers over. Volunteers, please sign in blood here: ______________ :) [1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac -- jca | PGP : 0x1524E7EE / 5135 92C1 AD36 5293 2BDF DDCC 0DFA 74AE 1524 E7EE
