brcm80211 in b43

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 14 16:47:10 EDT 2010


2010/10/14 Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Ariel Pedraza <pedrazaa at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> In the future the b43 driver will support the same devices that the brcm80211 driver does? just one universal driver pure FOSS...
>
> No.
>
> B43 only supports SSB-based devices; while brcm80211 is for SSB-less
> ones. (Brcmfmac is yet another driver - for fullmac Broadcoms with the
> exception of BCM4320, which is handled by rndis_wlan.)

Should be possible to add support for SSB-less devices in b43 in
future. Probably should be easier than adding support for SSB-based
devices in brcm80211, shouldn't it?

-- 
Rafał



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