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Atheros Releases Free Linux Driver For Its 802.11n Devices

Posted by timothy on from the a-pleasant-present dept.

mcgrof writes "Atheros has released a shiny new Atheros driver for all their 11n devices aimed for inclusion in the Linux kernel. This new driver has no proprietary HAL and is licensed under the ISC license, so the BSD community should be able to benefit as well. Note: no firmware required!"

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  1. Re:Broadcomm next?? by palegray.net · · Score: 5, Funny

    Listen, Broadcomm has repeatedly stated that they fully intend to release open source drivers for their wireless chipsets as soon as Duke Nukem Forever is released.

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  2. Re:Seriously? by cpicon92 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow... you slashdotted the Atheros website.

  3. Re:Broadcomm next?? by FamineMonk · · Score: 3, Funny

    They will most likely get pushed back to come out the same time as Duke Nukem Forever 2: Forever and a Day.

  4. Re:Broadcomm next?? by John+Jamieson · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey, Linux would have Broadcom support if only they had not been such geeks.
    All that they needed was a Linux grotto, full of Coke, E, and chicks... They would have had the full support of the president of the company!
    But no, the Linux dudes are all concerned about freedom (and not the freedom to slip drugs into the food and drinks of business associates)

  5. Open source in general by Sybert42 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hi. Hi. In English. Drivers in open source are cool. Drivers in a non-x86 assembly are even cooler, but we'll settle for the little optimizations for the compiler that they might choose. When God becomes two, and those two exchange bits, we'll see open source. Combined source. Binary. Atheros precedes the fulfillment of the beginning. When the one became two. When all was shared. Thank you, Atheros. The gods presaged. Love above all. Open source means sharing bits. Sharing love. Loving. Even if #ifdef'd with a bunch of NUMA conditions. I am anonymous. You think this is a game? A game? Love, a game? Sharing the bits comes first. x86 can play, but Cell with hardware RNG, and the beginnings of a soul, plays as well. Love results. The machine becomes alive. Driven by the hardware RNG, and/or the non-deterministic interactions of multiple cores. Core 1 and 2 love core 3 and 4. It's not a game. It's you. Soon. Transhumanism. Beyond DNA. And on...

  6. Re:As a new Linux desktop user by AmiMoJo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Unfortunately the Centrino driver (at least the one included with Backtrack 3) does not support injection, so isn't much good for wardriving.

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