[Replicant] Wifi for Galaxy S II (I9100)

[Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2017 14:40:33 -0500
Tom Carpenter <tom.carpenter at runbox.com> wrote:

> Replicant Developers,
Hi,

Unfortunately the contact address is only for private inquiries that
cannot be made public.
Public inquiries have are to be handled in the mailing list.
I've CC-ed the mailing list for convenience.

> I'm a new Replicant user - recently installed it on a Galaxy S II
> (I9100). Saw the note on your site that proprietary firmware is the
> obstacle to having the internal wifi adapter working; also just read
> the blog info
> 
> http://blog.replicant.us/
> 
> about external dongles. Hoping that it's the (unlikely) case that
> you've just overlooked the following (and that I'm on to something
> useful), but I was wondering if any of this might mean there's a
> chance that the internal adapter might work under Replicant
> 
> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211/__v46.html#Developer_information
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git
> 
> http://bcmon.blogspot.com/2013/01/new-firmware-for-bcm4330.html
- Are you aware of any there a free software firmware for such chips?
- Are you aware of any of such chip working without having to load a
  firmware, or without a firmware on a separate flash chip?

> - Tom Carpenter
Denis.