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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"This article is about the absence of manufacturer support for *open source* drivers."
The Battle for Wireless Drivers in Linux and BSD ... You are wrong , as usual and again ...
its for ANY wireless drivers.
"OpenBSD has been fighting"
Yes and GNU/Linux as been paying and obtaining the driver documentation that BSD's got to use.
Let me quote the article again :
"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. "
"which has resulted in high quality drivers for *all* open source operating systems. "
Off course , they are GNU/Linux driver that got ported to BSD , like everything else they got this days , when are you guys starting to pay and pull your weight ?
"ndiswrapper wraps closed source windows drivers."
Yes , but they also document the integration and help working on the native solution from those observations.
"madwifi supports atheros cards"
http://madwifi.org/
http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility
Wrong again ... unless 3Com , AirLink , Belkin ... BIG ETC, got bought in the last 5 seconds by Atheros ...
"(which OpenBSD has supported for some time now)."
Yes , they ported the GNU/Linux driver and used the GNU/Linux documentation.
Discussion is over , its not **only** OpenBSD.