airport estreme with Freebsd

[Joaquin Menchaca]

Peter Grehan wrote:
> Hi Mauro,
> 
>> It seems there are some bsd people messing around with airport extreme.
>> I'm wondering if freebsd macppc will be able to make use of this.
>> Are you guys aware of this?  How far is this along?  Usable?
> 
> 
>  I'm quite sure the airport-extreme hardware in recent notebooks can't 
> be supported by open source o/s's because Broadcom hasn't released the
> documentation and firmware required to write drivers.
> 
> later,
> 
> Peter.

This has been an outstanding issue on all platforms including Linux.  I 
read about this in Linux Unwired.  My take on it is that Broadcom feels 
that they have a competitive advantage, and documenting their stuff, 
would compromise that advantage.  That's only a theory from discussions 
with my UNIX Admin buddies. :-)