At present we don't have legal permission to distribute the firmware - to make the device work, you have to use special tools to extract it from firmware distributed by others - so we can't improve this situation yet. (Remember that ndiswrapper doesn't work on powerpc, so owners of Apple PowerBooks with Airport Extreme devices cannot use it.) We have people working on getting permission.
At present we don't have legal permission to distribute the firmware - to make the device work, you have to use special tools to extract it from firmware distributed by others - so we can't improve this situation yet. (Remember that ndiswrapper doesn't work on powerpc, so owners of Apple PowerBooks with Airport Extreme devices cannot use it.) We have people working on getting permission.