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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