On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 09:09:58 -0400,
"John W. Linville" <linville(a)redhat.com> wrote:
AIUI, they main technical reason that they were finally willing to
open-up was that they were able to add some regulatory enforcement code
in their firmware. The added firmware functionality required more
firmware resources, and only the newer devices explicictly supported
by Broadcom's newly-released driver have enough firmware resources
to run it.
How does the firmware know where you are? Do you need different firmware
for different markets?
I hope the guys that reverse engineered the firmware that can be used
as an alternative with the b43 driver keep working on it.