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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Member since:2005-07-06
"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.
Edit 1 :
"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
Member since: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).
Member since:
2005-11-23
The "Battle for Wireless Drivers in Linux and BSD" is only made by OpenBSD. The others just wait they make the works for them.
So kudo to the OpenBSD project.