[MLB-WIRELESS] 802.11g linux compatible cards.

[paul van den bergen]

Given the extent of the FreeBSD communitee, I have no doubt that appropriately 
hacked drivers are available somewhere - It would be well worth searching 
some of the BSD forums... - e.g. freebsd.org is a good starting point - has a 
list of lots of user forums etc.

On Tue, 6 May 2003 04:32 pm, Nick Sibbing wrote:
> Chris Samuel wrote:
> > My understanding is that currently there are *no* 802.11g style cards
> > that will work under Linux (or *BSD) as they are all using the Broadcom
> > chipset and Broadcom have not released any drivers, or information on how
> > to write a driver, to the open source community.
>
> Just a thought but Apple have backed 802.11g stuff in a big way for
> their new airport extreme stuff
>
> OSX is all unix underneath these days and they have committed to the
> open source model so perhaps research at
> http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/darwin/resources.html
>
> Might find a driver for this chip? They have both mac and X86 versions
> of the core os. Someone who is clever both with macs and matters *nix eg
> Mr Clae or Mr Borthwick would be good to ask.
>
> Regards Nick Sibbing
>
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