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Submitted by Trisquel on Mon, 07/20/2009 - 09:27

Add new free broadcom firmware for wireless cards

Project:Trisquel
Component:Kernel/drivers
Category:task
Priority:normal
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:closed
Description

We should include this http://www.ing.unibs.it/openfwwf/ reverse engineered firmware in our linux-libre kernel ASAP.

The code to backport is at http://www.linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/releases/LATEST-2.6.30.N/deblob-2.6.30 (search for "B43")

Trisquel:
Thu, 08/13/2009 - 17:56
Status:active» patch (needs review)

Latest trisquel 2.6.28 image includes the LATEST-2.6.30.N needed code, and the openfwwf package was added in the dwyn repo.

We need someone with a b43 card to test it.

Trisquel:
Mon, 09/14/2009 - 09:59
Status:patch (needs review)» closed

Tested by Juni, works, closing.