Re: Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC

From: Luis R. Rodriguez
Date: Fri Sep 26 2008 - 19:02:16 EST


On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 03:55:58PM -0700, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> If I understand this correctly, madwifi is no longer a non-free driver?

MadWifi is based on a proprietary HAL which is slightly different
than this one, so no, its still non-free. The "free" drivers where
I think focus should be put in is ath5k and ath9k as they are now both
merged as part of the Linux kernel.

Luis
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/