ath5k

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 07:54:45AM -0600, Tim Gardner wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > I read with interest this announcement reprinted in LWN:
> > 
> > http://lwn.net/Articles/250718/
> > 
> > "We, the MadWifi team, announce our decision to move away from the
> > binary-only HAL and change the focus of our future development towards
> > ath5k [1], a completely free (as in freedom) driver which will eventually
> > become an integral part of the Linux kernel. We encourage all interested
> > developers to join us and contribute to our efforts."
> > 
> > How does this impact us?  Clearly we, too, would prefer to move to a free
> > driver.  Is this something we can do in the foreseeable future?
> 
> I've been talking to Luis Rodriguez fairly often about ath5k. As soon as
> it supports WPA I think we ought to pull it in, perhaps in the
> linux-backports-module to begin with. Its going to be awhile before it
> reaches feature parity with the closed source HAL.

Is this something you foresee in the 8.04 timeframe, or later?

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 - mdz