![]() In September 2010, Broadcom released a fully open source driver. This is a restrictively licensed driver and it does not work with hidden ESSIDs, but Broadcom promised to work towards a more open approach in the future. In August 2008, Broadcom released the 802.11 Linux STA driver officially supporting Broadcom wireless devices on GNU/Linux. The reverse-engineered b43 driver was introduced in the 2.6.24 kernel. The limited set of wireless devices that were supported were done so by a reverse-engineered driver. ![]() For a good portion of its initial history, Broadcom devices were either entirely unsupported or required the user to tinker with the firmware.
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