Broadcom (and to a lesser extent, Realtek) devices had always been anywhere between hit-or-miss and completely unworkable on Linux, LONG before Raspberry Pi came around.
replyMy experience too. Sometimes I did manage to eventually get their cards working under Linux after pulling some proprietary firmware blobs.
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replyEvery Raspberry Pi ships with a closed source OS, ThreadX, that boots Linux, BTW.
replyIt's MIT licensed now, which isn't particularly useful when it comes to Pi (there's some Broadcom crap in that boot loader so it won't be open sourced) but otherwise is kind of interesting.
replyI imagine that is because modern Broadcom is a different Broadcom, Avago bought and took the name in 2016.
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