[bgamari]

As someone who recently, despite my better judgement, dropped a non-negligible amount of money on a 802.11ac adapter bearing a Broadcom chipset, I will readily say that I will never buy another of their wireless products again. I had assumed that their increased activity on the `brcm[fs]mac` drivers signaled a possible improvement in their efforts on Linux driver support.

Well, this may or may not be true, but the best drivers in the world won't do a thing if the vendor forgets to release compatible firmware. That's not to say that the firmware doesn't exist: if you are willing to strip an image out of an access point firmware image then you can bring the card into a somewhat functional state, but, as expected, it's far from perfect. Namely, WPA rekeying appears to be broken, rendering the device useless for my application.

I've been in contact with the vendor; the most precise release date for the firmware I've been able to get is (paraphrasing) "maybe someday".

Life is too short for this vendor's games.