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> If they have a published, freely distributable driver for linux. why would 
> you have to sign an NDA to port it to FreeBSD?

You don't. But reverse engineering isn't always complete.

I should know- having gone through hell for the Gigabit NIC for *BSD... mostly
reverse engineered from the Linux driver.




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