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Atheros Releases Free Linux Driver For Its 802.11n Devices
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| Atheros has released a shiny new Atheros driver for all their 11n devices
| aimed for inclusion in the Linux kernel. This new driver has no proprietary
| HAL and is licensed under the ISC license, so the BSD community should be
| able to benefit as well. Note: no firmware required!
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http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/26/2138228
Atheros Releases 802.11n Linux Driver
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| Last September we reported that MadWiFi was abandoning their proprietary HAL
| and really the driver itself for that matter. The developers behind the
| popular MadWiFi Linux driver were ceasing work on it in favor of starting up
| a new driver called ath5k using OpenHAL. Two of the key developers were also
| hired by Atheros, the wireless chipset company itself. Through these recent
| improvements, Atheros has went from a company being criticized for their lack
| of Linux support to one with impecable possibilities.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjYyMw
Microsoft can always rely on the Foxconns of the world, but as Linux become
more popular (and Vista is DoA), even its bed partners stop snubbing
competitors.
Yesterday:
Foxconn Does Hate Linux Support
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| The DSDT for Windows is correct, but Foxconn isn't interested in issuing a
| (simple) update to fix the Linux support. However, this isn't surprising to
| us. We've known that Foxconn does not wish to support Linux at all. Going
| back to 2006, Foxconn has told us at Phoronix that they aren't interested in
| Linux on their motherboards and they have no desire to support it.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjYyMA
Related:
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| From: Bill Gates
| Sent: Sunday, January 24, 1999 8:41 AM
| To: Jeff Westorinen; Ben Fathi
| Cc: Carl Stork (Exchange); Nathan Myhrvold; Eric Rudder
| Subject: ACPI extensions
|
| One thing I find myself wondering about is whether we shouldn’t try and
| make the “ACPI” extensions somehow Windows specific.
|
| It seems unfortunate if we do this work and get our partners to do the
| work and the results is that Linux works great without having to do the
| work.
|
| Maybe there is no way to avoid this problem but it does bother me.
|
| Maybe we could define the APIs so that they work well with NT and not
| the others even if they are open.
|
| Or maybe we could patent something related to this.
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http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03020.pdf
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