Linuxant Broadcom 802.11g Drivers for Linux


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Edd pointed me to Broadcom 54g Drivers for Linux released by Linuxant via a press release posted to LWN.

It’s not the One True solution, as Edd put it, but it’s a start.  Ideally I’d like to use drivers that were GPL’d/LGPL’d and incorporated into Wlan-ng or the kernel source.  The licensing of these drivers also concerns me a bit:

* Linuxant is happy to provide free trial DriverLoader licenses, while discussions are under way with hardware vendors to finance development costs. Linuxant hopes that DriverLoader will remain free for end-users.

This is definately a great product, and very useful, as there are bajillions of Broadcom chipsets out there in the wild.  I’ll definately be keeping an eye on this and other 802.11g Linux projects.