On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)j2solutions.net> wrote:
"pbrobinson(a)gmail.com" <pbrobinson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>Does anyone know if the new Broadcom drivers are in a state where they
>would be in the Fedora 14 kernel? I've seen the release but i've not
>seen any comment as to the state of them other than they already
>support mac80211. These are quite a common device and I think it would
>be nice to see them available in F-14.
>
IIRC they require a firmware blob that has a license that we cannot distribute
unlike say the Intel firmwares. I could be wrong though.
You are ;)
The firmware required is part of linux-firmware (i.e fine to ship).