Re: Driver for BCM4318

2006-11-09 Thread Jon Simola
On 11/4/06, Jon Simola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/4/06, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Broadcom 802.11 chipsets are the bastards of the industry. They > are the most complicated and difficult to program. http://bcm-specs.sipsolutions.net, and it's been rather enjoyable

Re: Driver for BCM4318

2006-11-05 Thread Robby Workman
Jon Simola wrote: After reading over the specs repeatedly, spending many nights studying their tangled tales and twisted methods, I have to agree with Theo: It would take an idiot to try writing a driver for these Broadcom chipsets. It would take an idiot to try doing it using only a laptop wit

Re: Driver for BCM4318

2006-11-05 Thread Steffen Wendzel
On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 21:00:25 -0800 "Jon Simola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : On 10/4/06, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : : After reading over the specs repeatedly, spending many nights studying : their tangled tales and twisted methods, I have to agree with Theo: : : It would take an i

Re: Driver for BCM4318

2006-11-04 Thread Jon Simola
On 10/4/06, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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

Re: Driver for BCM4318

2006-10-04 Thread Theo de Raadt
> > 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

Re: Driver for BCM4318

2006-09-12 Thread Nick Guenther
On 9/12/06, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2006/09/12 13:33, Nick Guenther wrote: > >does somebody already work on a driver for a Broadcom BCM4318 [AirForce > >One 54g] 802.11g WLAN driver? > > Probably not. Broadcom generally are bitches like that. But note that Not always - see

Re: Driver for BCM4318

2006-09-12 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/09/12 13:33, Nick Guenther wrote: > >does somebody already work on a driver for a Broadcom BCM4318 [AirForce > >One 54g] 802.11g WLAN driver? > > Probably not. Broadcom generally are bitches like that. But note that Not always - see bnx(4): The bnx driver was written by David Christ

Re: Driver for BCM4318

2006-09-12 Thread Nick Guenther
On 9/12/06, Steffen Wendzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, 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,