Bug 508320

Summary:	RFE Include free b43 firmware
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Bruno Wolff III <bruno>
Component:	b43-tools	Assignee:	Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	rawhide	CC:	lemenkov
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Description Bruno Wolff III 2009-06-26 14:57:48 UTC

Description of problem:
Fedora can't include the Broadcom firmware because of copyright restrictions.
There exists free, reverse engineered, firmware that could be included. The main issue being whether the quality of the implementation is good enough to have people trying it.
The firmware is available from:
http://www.ing.unibs.it/openfwwf/

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Comment 1 Bruno Wolff III 2009-06-27 14:08:24 UTC

It looks like there is a package for this that has been waiting for review for a while. See bug 490892.

Comment 2 Peter Lemenkov 2009-06-27 15:33:10 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 490892 ***