[debian-non-standard] debian on asus wl-500w

Andres Aguirre aguirrea at gmail.com
Sat Feb 28 15:42:49 CET 2009


have you tried it? because the guys in openwrt-devel list have said
that broadcom 4321 don't work in mips architecture because the drivers
are closed and there is only a binary driver for kernel 2.4 and not
for 2.6.
greetings

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo at wpkg.org> wrote:
> Andres Aguirre schrieb:
>>
>> Hi, I have read the article
>> http://wpkg.org/Running_Debian_on_ASUS_WL-500W wich suprised me,
>> because it shows the posibility of running kernel 2.6 with broadcom
>> 4321 (asus wl500w wifi) and the driver isn't ported due the
>> imposibility of getting the source code.
>> Is the article correct? How they could get the broadcom 4321 driver
>> for kernel 2.6?
>
> It's supported by b43 module in the upstream kernel for some time.
>
>
> --
> Tomasz Chmielewski
> http://wpkg.org
>
>



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