UWN further states that Broadcom announced the new fully open 802.11n wireless driver, BCRM80211; this new driver is to be included in the new 2.6.37 kernel tree. While the driver is still a work in progress and lacking many options, none the less this represents a huge step for the Open Source Community and Broadcom's involvement.

It shuld be mentioned however that D-Link, among other manufacturers has also released source codes for its DFE-5xxTX NICs in the past. Nevertheless recent developments will lead to a situation in which users that denied using Broadcom chips in the past will more likely consider them in the near future. We think the aforementioned applies to chips on standard, wired Ethernet controller cards as well as to ones used with wireless, 802.11n interface cards. Considering the ongoing movement towards more location-independent computing the latter hardware will be of most interest for both paries; hardware manufacturer Broadcom and the end user.