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Subject: kern/154851: Port brcm80211 driver from Linux to FreeBSD
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>Number:         154851
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Port brcm80211 driver from Linux to FreeBSD
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Feb 17 19:50:09 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Théophile Studer
>Release:        FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE amd64
>Organization:
EPFL
>Environment:
FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE  #0: Mon Jul 19 02:36:49 UTC 2010 root@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
>Description:
In September 2010, Broadcom released a full opensource version under BSD licence of their driver for part of their WLAN hardware (BCM43224, BCM43225, BCM4313 (PCIe NIC)).

That would be so nice if this could be added to FreeBSD.

For more information, see :
 - http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/55418
 - http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211
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