Wireless in Linux, finally!

Finally! A working reverse engineered driver for the Broadcom 43xx chipset has been released. The chipset is used by Apple for their "Airport Extreme" wireless network cards, eg in my Powerbook.

As I mainly use Linux (Ubuntu) it's been a problem for me that neither Broadcom nor Apple has released an open source driver for the chipset. Neither have they published the cards specifications, so it has been hard for the Linux developers to reverse engineer it. Now, though, it's finally here, and I'm actually writing this post from my Powerbook, without the cable plugged in.

Thanks a lot, open source hackers.