Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 21st Dec 2006 08:29 UTC, submitted by Valour
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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2006-04-25
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/
http://madwifi.org/
I guess your lying and wrong , but that's just me and reality saying so.
This article is about the absence of manufacturer support for *open source* drivers. OpenBSD has been fighting with some success at getting documentation for wireless chipsets, which has resulted in high quality drivers for *all* open source operating systems.
ndiswrapper wraps closed source windows drivers.
madwifi supports atheros cards (which OpenBSD has supported for some time now).