Linux Wireless
Brian Densmore
DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com
Mon Oct 27 23:16:58 CST 2003
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Hutchins
[snip]
>
> The 802.11a cards are not well supported, and as far as I
> know none of the
> 802.11g chipsets are supported.
>
> Supposedly both the 11b "turbo" and 11g cards have the
> ability to use areas of
> the spectrum that are reserved - possibly for "national
> security" use, hence
> they are afraid that if they release open-source drivers
> someone will hack
> the card into a government secret network or something.
> That's the latest
> rumor anyway.
>
Oh heck!
If someone is willing to donate a card temporarily. I'll hack
(...errr, reverse engineer
... errr, independently analyze for research purposes only)
the damn thing and write a driver for it.
Brian
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