11.17.09
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The Case for Non-Free Firmware By Default by Christopher Tozzi

Ubuntu comes with a nice application called “Hardware Drivers” (a.k.a. jockey-gtk) for installing proprietary drivers for wireless cards and other devices that lack open-source support. This is great, except when your only connection to the Internet is wireless and you have no way to download the driver or firmware you need. Here’s why this situation should change.

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10.02.08
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Broadcom Switches to the Light Side: The Start of a New Era? by Christopher Tozzi

As anyone familiar with the Linux wireless scene before 2006 knows, Broadcom, which manufacturers the wireless chipsets found in many laptops, was for a long time synonymous with everything evil about closed-source software.  That’s changing. Here’s how.

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