airport estreme with Freebsd

Peter Grehan grehan at freebsd.org
Mon Jan 24 00:06:35 PST 2005


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.


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