Re: Going from Broadcom's sources to wireless card to WPA network

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On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 15:10:24 +0000,
  Suresh Govindachar <sgovindachar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>   But why such an indirect approach when Broadcom supports Linux
>   on: http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php (such
>   support has existed since October 2008.)

Because they don't let people redistribute their firmware.

Also note that some Broadcom wireless devices are supported out of the
box on Fedora using free firmware developed by a third party.
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