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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2005-07-11
"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 ...
madwifi stands for Multi-band Atheros Driver for Wifi. It's the driver for the Atheros chipsets. A lot of different companies use those chipsets in their wireless devices. madwifi *ONLY* supports Atheros chipsets.
If you're going to correct someone, at least use correct information.