> We, the MadWifi team, announce our decision to move away from
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> the binary-only HAL and change the focus of our future
> development towards ath5k [1]

Congratulations !

I also thought about going to bcm43xx based WLAN cards, as they 
are now working much better than two months ago ...  and, from a 
what-happens-in-linux-kernel-perspective, it seamed much more 
lively and healthy.

For example, several people tried to get better roaming support 
into madwifi. That's basically a job for net80211, not for the 
atheros chipset. But the madwifi project lacked people with 
enought time and knowledge in the net80211 area, so no peer 
review did happen and, of course, the code in the madwifi svn 
didn't get changed, so madwifi still doesn't roam more smoothly.

So, by moving to ath5k, which is using mac80211, there is no need 
to have people that know and can maintain BSD's net80211 inside 
Linux. We get the best from both worlds: some very knowledgeable 
people in the mac80211 area, and some very knowledgeable persons 
in the atheros driver area.

I like that :-)

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