Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 21st Dec 2006 08:29 UTC, submitted by Valour
Internet & Networking BSD and Linux programmers have had a lot of success in creating drivers for new computer hardware in a timely manner, but much of their effort has been without the support of major hardware manufacturers. Intel, Marvell, Texas Instruments and Broadcom, though separate and competing entities, seem by one consent to prevent non-Microsoft operating systems from working properly with some of their most widely-used network chips.
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Thanks GNU/Linux
by Moulinneuf on Thu 21st Dec 2006 17:33 UTC in reply to "Thanks OpenBSD"
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"is only made by OpenBSD."

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/

http://madwifi.org/

I guess your lying and wrong , but that's just me and reality saying so.

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"Theo de Raadt told me in an email, "Our efforts to do more wireless involves a few approaches. We reverse-engineer what we can. We borrow from other people's reverse-engineering lessons where we can, for instance, prism54.org is a Linux team, but their reverse-engineer work has resulted in knowledge which we can obviously use to write a BSD driver. "

Edited 2006-12-21 17:45

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