Weekly Engineering News 37/2008

[Werner Almesberger]

Harald Welte wrote:
> This is a common misconception.  Atheros behaves _completely_ different
> with > regard to their AR5k and AR9k variants (full softmac, and now
> fully open source drivers, no firmware) and the mobile AR6k chipset.

This means that it's at least not company policy or ignorance that
causes Atheros to be so closed in this case, which gives us some hope
that we can find a solution also for AR6k that's more compatible with
our culture.

- Werner