On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Reyk Floeter  wrote:

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> They neither apologized for all the trouble nor give me any credits

> for my work.  ath9k would not exist without my work on the OpenBSD

> ar5k driver, it was a door opener, the base of the ath5k port, and

> Atheros' way into the Linux kernel.  It was the reason why Luis

> Rodriguez got his new job.  It might help Atheros to gain market

> shares again, after they lost so many to more open companies like

> Ralink Tech.

those guys are sure acting in frustrating ways. it is unpleasant to be

atheros user, these days even more (pity my notebooks are given to me

with no possibility to choose).
> At a given time I will have a look at it to see if we can fix our

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> ath(4) driver to support the latest 802.11n chipsets.  It was already

> very close and the released source code might help to fix the issues.

> I don't think that we need a completely new driver for this in

> OpenBSD, we have a chipset abstraction in our driver that got removed

> by the ath5k folks.  And the MAC is still almost identical.

perhaps this is clear OT, but is there possibility ath(4) will be

blessed with WPA support?
> Reyk
thanks.