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		yjftsjthsd-h 15 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBo... > Manufacturer/vendor did not provided open source driver with real freedom license (BSD/MIT/...) Article says, > Brcmfmac is a Linux driver (ISC licence) for set of FullMAC chips from Broadcom I don't feel like looking to see where the Linux driver came from, but someone provided a permissively-licensed driver.

swiftcoder 15 days ago [–]

> I don't feel like looking to see where the Linux driver came from

It's originally from Broadcom themselves. A lot of Broadcom hardware runs linux natively (i.e. mobile and embedded CPUs), and a ton more of it ships in linux-adjacent devices (routers, android devices, etc)

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