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Subject: Re: any open wireless firmware project for FreeBSD?
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Kan Cai <kcai@cs.ubc.ca> writes:

> Greetings all:
>
>   I am just wondering if there is ANY open wireless firmware project under 
> FreeBSD, like OpenWrt project for Linksys WRT54G under Linux.

The Problem with most of those routers is that they use a broadcom
wireless lan chip. The linux distributions use a binary only driver. 

Arne
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