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SFLC: OpenBSD Atheros driver is clean

Posted Nov 15, 2006 15:13 UTC (Wed) by xav (guest, #18536)
Parent article: SFLC: OpenBSD Atheros driver is clean

Intel, Broadcom and now Atheros, it looks like all major wireless chipsets
have now a free driver. Add to that mix a complete NVIDIA driver (it's
slowly on its way, see http://nouveau.sf.net) and suddenly linux's future
is brighter.

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Posted Nov 15, 2006 16:42 UTC (Wed) by ca9mbu (guest, #11098) [Link]

Don't forget Ralink. Their wireless chipsets appear to be quite popular in products I can easily source in the UK. It'd be really nice if their code (and the Atheros driver too, when it comes about) could be merged into the vanilla kernel tree. It'd save having to download another tarball and hope it works with whichever kernel version folks might want to test it out with!

SFLC: OpenBSD Atheros driver is clean

Posted Nov 15, 2006 23:45 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

The ralink rt2x00 driver won't be merged with the kernel until the devicescape stack is complete.

I've been waiting on this one for a while myself.