> > does somebody already work on a driver for a Broadcom BCM4318 [AirForce
> > One 54g] 802.11g WLAN driver?
> >
> > steffen
> >
>
> Probably not. Broadcom generally are bitches like that. But note that
> this information you've given is just the card model, what's important
> is the actual chip on the card. Is it an ath(4), a iwi(4), etc.?
The Broadcom 802.11 chipsets are the bastards of the industry. They
are the most complicated and difficult to program. Broadcom's
division is not interested in helping at all.
A Linux team has managed to mostly reverse engineer a subset of the
functionality and chip versions. That information can be found at:
http://bcm-specs.sipsolutions.net/
http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/
Naturally... anyone can read this stuff, learn from it, and then from
their knowledge write a BSD licensed driver. There is enough
information there to create a driver, at least for some varients of
the chips. As I said, it is probably the most complicated chip in the
industry, and the specification is harrowing.. but it can be done,
since the Linux people managed to produce a driver.
Inside the OpenBSD developer community Broadcom wireless is not
currently on anyone's plans. Drivers for other chips will be written
first.
Therefore it would be nice if someone from the outside took on this
project.
Good luck!
