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Linux Developers Create Open Broadcom WiFi Firmware
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| An increasing number of hardware vendors are adopting practices that benefit
| the open-source and Linux communities from AMD releasing documentation and
| code to Creative Labs open-sourcing their X-Fi sound driver. One of the
| companies holding back on better embracing Linux has been Broadcom with their
| WiFi adapters being ill supported. However, open-source developers have
| stepped up to the plate and have improved the situation on their own.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Njk4Mg
Open source firmware for Broadcom wireless adapters
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| we have been involved in the past few months in testing modifications
| to the standard 802.11 MAC for research purposes. During this time we
| did some tests with Broadcom 802.11b/g boards and we wrote down a
| simple 802.11 compliant firmware that we used as a starting point for
| the modified MAC algorithms.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/314313/
Recent:
Kernel Log: What's coming in 2.6.28 - Part 9: Fastboot and other remainders
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| The previous eight parts of the kernel log's "What's coming in 2.6.28" series
| discussed some of the most important changes to the Linux kernel incorporated
| with 2.6.28. Quite a few of the commits for the main development branch,
| however, don't really belong to any of the topics discussed in the series so
| far and as a result, haven't yet been mentioned. In other cases, the kernel
| developers have made minor, but significant changes to some kernel areas,
| after we had covered them.
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http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/Kernel-Log-What-s-coming-in-2-6-28-Part-9-Fastboot-and-other-remainders--/news/112292
Kernel Log: What's coming in 2.6.28 - Part 4: Improved graphics support
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| Two collections of patches (1, 2) proposed by the maintainer of the Direct
| Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) have incorporated numerous graphics hardware
| support improvements into the main development branch. This is the
| development branch which will produce Linux version 2.6.28 at the end of this
| year or at the beginning of next year.
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http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/Kernel-Log-What-s-coming-in-2-6-28-Part-4-Improved-graphics-support--/news/111783
Kernel Log: New Atheros WLAN drivers and stable kernels, radeon vs. radeonhd
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| Linux Wi-Fi specialist and developer Luis R. Rodriguez, who has worked for
| Atheros for several months now, has announced the release of the Otus driver
| under the ISC open source licence. This driver for Atheros UB81, UB82 and
| UB83 802.11n USB Wi-Fi chips has been released to have it integrated into the
| main development branch of Linux as soon as possible. That this approach can
| work very well was already demonstrated by ath9k. The kernel hackers
| integrated it into the main development branch that recently produced Linux
| 2.6.27 only a few weeks after its release in July. As the next versions of
| Fedora, OpenSuse and Ubuntu will come with this kernel version, all three
| will also include ath9k.
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http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/Kernel-Log-New-Atheros-WLAN-drivers-and-stable-kernels-radeon-vs-radeonhd--/news/111780
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