FreeBSD 802.11a/g Support

ByTor-2112 writes "If you are like me, you feel like the "next generation" 802.11 technology was leaving the group of people who got the revolution started in the first place -- the Linux/BSD network enthusiasts -- out in the cold. Well No more. With help from Atheros Comunications, Sam Leffler has built a new 802.11 layer for BSD and drivers for the Atheros chipsets (which are found on many of your 11a/g cards). A Linux version of the driver is here. I will certainly make sure to recommend these supported cards to all my friends."

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Re:for linux too!

[irc.goatse.cx troll]

Linux is about being the best tool for multiple jobs, so if someoen else with a usable license does something that the linux userbase would enjoy, it gets thrown into linux.

Free and Open BSD(not sure about Net, as I don't follow it) on the other hand are about doing things the traditional(read: archaic) BSD way. When faced with the choices of A) do something current to help usability or B) do things the way we've been doing them since 1980, the [FO]BSD maintainers always choose B.

As a result of that enforced old/hard to use standard, [FO]BSD's main userbase are the skillless kiddies that just use BSD because of the implied elitism -- They think that if it's hard to use and they can use it, They must be better. Unfortunately explaining to them that all it means is they choose the path of wasted time is near impossible.

For the record: I've admined an OpenBSD free shell provider (brained, for anyone keeping track), a FreeBSD based hosting provider, and now multiple servers for a different hosting provider, all running Debian Linux. At home I've ran OpenBSD 2.9, FreeBSD 4.2, Slackware, Gentoo, Debian, And a variety of others.