Re: MadWifi HAL now open source

Have you tried digging through the ubnt forums or contacting ubiquiti
support yet?

On Dec 9, 5:55=A0pm, macker <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 c=
ards
> > as my AP on my linux box?
>
> > Currently I'm stuck at 802.11b with my Engenius Senao NL-2511 PCMCIA ca=
rd
> > 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 i=
s 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 Ather=
os
> > Wifi cards. A few weeks ago, Atheros released a HAL under the same lice=
nse,
> > to help develop the ath5k, IEEE 802.11a/b/g, Wifi driver, which some
> > developers, including Atheros employee Luis R. Rodriguez, had ported fr=
om
> > OpenBSD to Linux last year. Ath5k and the ath9k Draft-N WLAN driver, wh=
ich
> > dispense entirely with proprietary parts in favour of OpenHAL, have bee=
n
> > 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 prev=
ented
> > direct access to the Wifi hardware. The developers of the MadWifi drive=
r had
> > tolerated this situation, although it meant that parts of the software
> > project resembled a black box and could not be incorporated in the Linu=
x
> > kernel.
>
> > The release of the MadWifi HAL concludes the agreement between Leffler =
and
> > Atheros which gave him access to information on the manufacturer's devi=
ces.
> > All fixes and updates for new chips will be carried out by the develope=
r
> > community from now on. The published source code uses the Linux operati=
ng
> > system as its reference platform. Potential developers can find out mor=
e on
> > the ath5k-devel and ath9k-devel mailing lists; note that these lists ar=
e SSL
> > secured with an unverifiable certificate and will require an exception =
be
> > made in your browser.
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