The Battle for Wireless Network Drivers

An anonymous reader points out this Jem Matzan article "about the pain Linux and BSD programmers have in trying to obtain/write device drivers for various wireless cards," writing: This article also has a fairly detailed explanation of how wireless firmwares and drivers work. Two of the manufacturers are actively working with the FOSS community without requiring an NDA."

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Re:As someone that has been there

[Monkelectric]

Broadcom has a building in Irvine, or Anaheim I think. I don't recall where exactly, but I know i've seen it ... Somewhere in orange county (CA). If its really that bad, there have to be enough geeks in the area to go down to the building and protest for a few hours. This is America god damnit.

Just a thought.

Alien Tech

[ArtfulDodger75]

They don't want people to figure out that wireless network technology was actually discovered amongst the wreckage of the Roswell alien spaceship crash. If the open source developers are allowed to dig too deep, they'll discover the dilithium crystal in the heart of every wireless NIC!!!