Re: approaching vendors with a consolidation of effort

> Idea is brave, but I dont think it will work
> There are already sime ap's with linux
> also the big problem is wlan card chipset makers
> who ususly keep their driver code top secret,

Sure they keep their drivers top secret, but with the gaining popularity of
Linux, more and more wlan card manufacturers are going to make linux drivers
available... and if we have an open source linux distro on an x86 based AP,
changing the wlan radio in the unit is simply a matter of installing the
manufacturer supplied driver I would think.  Yeah, you may not be able to
tweak the settings on the card, but surely you'd be able to still have linux
handle the router functions, no matter what wlan card is in the unit, so
long as it has linux drivers from the manufacturer.