[Gllug] Madwifi drivers

Russell Howe rhowe at siksai.co.uk
Tue Apr 12 22:06:22 UTC 2005


On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:59:20PM +0100, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> 
> Why not just buy wifi cards that have a GPL driver?

There are none for the 802.11g cards, as far as I know.

Anyway, some OpenBSD guy has reverse-engineered the closed source
portion of the madwifi drivers, so with a bit of work (which may already
have been done somewhere), it should be possible to drive these cards
using completely open source drivers.

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