Re: MadWifi HAL now open source

All this means, is that the ubiquiti SRX expresscard will still not
work for months, going on 8 months later?

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Daevid Vincent <[email protected]> wrote:
> So does this mean I'll be able to use one of those newer 802.11g or n cards
> as my AP on my linux box?
>
> Currently I'm stuck at 802.11b with my Engenius Senao NL-2511 PCMCIA card
> and hostap. I'm dying.
> ________________________________
> MadWifi HAL now open source
>
> Sam Leffler, maintainer of the binary HAL used in MadWifi releases,
> announced last weekend that he was releasing the source code for the
> hardware abstraction layer (HAL) of the MadWifi Linux Wifi driver. It is now
> available under an ISC license via a subversion repository (svn web
> interface).
>
> For a long time, MadWifi was the only Linux driver able to handle Atheros
> Wifi cards. A few weeks ago, Atheros released a HAL under the same license,
> to help develop the ath5k, IEEE 802.11a/b/g, Wifi driver, which some
> developers, including Atheros employee Luis R. Rodriguez, had ported from
> OpenBSD to Linux last year. Ath5k and the ath9k Draft-N WLAN driver, which
> dispense entirely with proprietary parts in favour of OpenHAL, have been
> part of the Linux kernel since versions 2.6.25 and 2.6.27 respectively.
> Before now, MadWifi used the manufacturer's proprietary HAL, which prevented
> direct access to the Wifi hardware. The developers of the MadWifi driver had
> tolerated this situation, although it meant that parts of the software
> project resembled a black box and could not be incorporated in the Linux
> kernel.
>
> The release of the MadWifi HAL concludes the agreement between Leffler and
> Atheros which gave him access to information on the manufacturer's devices.
> All fixes and updates for new chips will be carried out by the developer
> community from now on. The published source code uses the Linux operating
> system as its reference platform. Potential developers can find out more on
> the ath5k-devel and ath9k-devel mailing lists; note that these lists are SSL
> secured with an unverifiable certificate and will require an exception be
> made in your browser.
>
>
> >
>

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