Re: Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC

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From: H. Peter Anvin

Subject: Re: Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC

Date: Friday, September 26, 2008 - 4:21 pm

Sam Leffler wrote:
quoted text>>
>> MadWifi is based on a proprietary HAL which is slightly different
>> than this one, so no, its still non-free. The "free" drivers where
>> I think focus should be put in is ath5k and ath9k as they are now both
>> merged as part of the Linux kernel.
>>   
> 
> The hal is not proprietary; Atheros just won't allow me to release it.  
> And there are significant differences between the two code bases.
> 

Perhaps you and Luis can work together on fixing that problem?

And Luis, congratulations on your work so far.  It has really paid off.

	-hpa

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Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC, Luis R. Rodriguez, (Fri Sep 26, 2:57 pm)

Re: Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC, Nick Kossifidis, (Fri Sep 26, 3:02 pm)

Re: Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC, Michael Buesch, (Fri Sep 26, 3:09 pm)

Re: Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC, Greg KH, (Fri Sep 26, 3:36 pm)

Re: Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC, Maxim Levitsky, (Fri Sep 26, 3:55 pm)

Re: Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC, Luis R. Rodriguez, (Fri Sep 26, 4:01 pm)

Re: Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC, Sam Leffler, (Fri Sep 26, 4:04 pm)

Re: Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC, H. Peter Anvin, (Fri Sep 26, 4:21 pm)

Re: Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC, Jiri Slaby, (Sat Sep 27, 5:42 am)

Re: [ath5k-devel] Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under t ..., Bob Copeland, (Sat Sep 27, 6:09 am)

Re: Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC, John W. Linville, (Sat Sep 27, 7:38 am)

Re: Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC, Tim Gardner, (Sat Sep 27, 8:34 am)

Re: Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC, Glenn Saberton, (Sun Sep 28, 6:18 am)

Re: [ath5k-devel] Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under t ..., Derek Smithies, (Sun Sep 28, 1:45 pm)

Re: Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC, Michael Renzmann, (Sun Sep 28, 8:50 pm)


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