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Submission + - MadWifi Goes Completely Open Source (kerneltrap.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 21, 2007 @03:41PM

An anonymous reader writes: The MadWifi Linux wireless developers have announced that they will be focusing entirely on their new completely open source ath5k driver, moving away from their existing "blob"-based driver. The driver adds support for the popular Atheros-based wireless networking cards, and this new open source version can finally be merged into the mainline Linux kernel, benefiting all Linux users. KernelTrap has an interesting article covering the recent announcement, and the progress and remaining issues surrounding the licensing of the new Linux driver.

Submission + - MadWifi moves away from binary-only HAL

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 21, 2007 @10:48AM

An anonymous reader writes: 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, 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.
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To underline our decision and commitment to ath5k we now declare MadWifi "legacy". In the long run ath5k will replace the MadWifi driver. For the time being MadWifi will still be supported, bugs will get fixed and HAL updates will be applied where possible. But it becomes unlikely that we'll see new features or go through major changes on that codebase.

http://madwifi.org/wiki/news/20070920/madwifi-moves-away-from-binary-only-hal

Comment scare the living crap out of more spammers (Score 1) 244

by mcgrof on Saturday October 19, 2002 @10:29PM (#4487831) Attached to: Spammer Fined $2,000 Plus Costs in Washington

Great! I can now track down spammers, and e-mail them the link to that story. Then blackmail them to paypall me $100.00 or get sued :)

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