Broadcom announced today the initial release of its new open source wireless drivers for Linux. The drivers, which are built using the kernel's own native SoftMAC framework, are currently in the ...

Known as brcm80211, the new open source driver is for Broadcom’s latest 802.11n chipsets, and it uses the Linux kernel’s native Mac80211 stack, according to Henry Ptasinski, a principal ...

There has been quite a bit of discussion and celebration in the Linux community recently because Broadcom released an open-source driver for their wireless networking adapters. This is ...

Broadcom will continue to work on the Linux Driver Project, and it will also participate in The Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, ...

You see, for years, Linux notebook users have had a hate-hate relationship with Broadcom. While Atheros and Intel provided Linux Wi-FI drivers and code, Broadcom did little to nothing for Linux users.

Today, Broadcom was finally named a member of the Linux Foundation. Broadcom’s open sourced drivers which were integrated into the latest Linux kernel release 2.6.37 has been improved by the ...

Broadcom is not officially supporting Linux in any way. But somehow I don’t think it will be too long before some users create easy-to-install packages for popular Linux distributions such as ...

It seems I'm not the only one with this kind of issue: I'm running KUbuntu 14.04 LTS, up-to-date but with a home-built 3.14 kernel (3.14.59 with ConKolivas patches) since quite a while. This is on ...

On September 9 the news of Broadcom's release of the code for some of its wireless Ethernet chip sets sent shockwaves throughout the Linux community. Broadcom owners, as well as distribution ...

LONDON — Leading fabless chip supplier Broadcom Corp. (Irvine, Calif.) has joined the LiMo (Linux Mobile) Foundation as an associate member. The group, originally formed by Motorola Inc., NEC, NTT ...