[OpenWrt-Users] wireless for ASUS WL-500GP using 2.6 kernel?

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 10:10 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
> that's right -- a MiniPCI Broadcom 802.11b/g BCM4318.

Some (most?) have the chip soldered right onto the mainboard.  ASUS are
nice in that they provide it via MiniPCI.  :-)

> yes, i remember that.  i was just curious as to whether the state of
> wireless support on broadcom had progressed significantly since then.

Indeed.

> at the moment, i'm running wireless on a gateway laptop with a
> broadcom chip, and it works fine with the newer b43 driver, so i just
> wanted to know if this success had translated over into openwrt.

The situation, as I understand it is not so much of portability between
projects as much as it's the driver itself.  When you are using it on
your laptop, you are a "client" (of an AP).  This (client) mode in the
b43 driver is progressing further ahead of the "being an AP" mode.  So
it's more a situation of certain features or "use cases" of the driver
making progress faster than others.

b.