Broadcom releases an open-source driver for its wireless chipsets

Re:Broadcom releases an open-source driver for its wireless ... by morisy on Thursday September 09, 2010 @02:22PM (#1676293)

I feel like there has got to be a gotcha or two in there, but if not, this is great news. I wonder how much the proliferating netbook market is to blame for it?

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Re:Broadcom releases an open-source driver for its wireless ... by joezydeco on Thursday September 09, 2010 @10:35PM (#1677688)

Wanna bet it's so they don't get left behind in the ChromeOS reference designs?

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Re:Broadcom releases an open-source driver for its wireless ... by kelnos on Friday September 10, 2010 @05:07AM (#1678296)

I hear Google's been putting pressure on manufacturers to avoid using binary blobs in the kernel on Android. This could be related to that as well.

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