>> Note: The brcm47xx still won't work for those of you needing broadcom
>> wifi, stick to brcm-2.4. We will tell you when it does work.
> I need to know. How much may take time before we can use the b43 driver?
> One month? Half year?
IIUC the above note is conservative: the b43 driver in brcm47xx works
fine in many circumstances. And that's been true for a while now.
E.g. it works fine in client mode (at least with WPA and without
encryption), and IIUC it may also work fine in master mode (i.e. as an
AP) without encryption, but not as an AP with WPA (not sure if it just
plain doesn't work, or simply suffers from serious performance bugs).
Also, last I heard, there is very little hope for improvement in the
foreseeable future: the b43 driver is actively maintained and improved,
but mostly to support more recent cards. For older cards, there is
little interest, especially because it would require a fair bit of
reverse engineering (IIUC).
The above is mostly hearsay (except I can personally vouch for the fact
that the b43 drivers works fine as WPA-client with a WL-700gE) and vague
understandings, so take it with a grain of salt.
Stefan
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