From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 24 16:11:41 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59E3016A403 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:11:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kip.macy@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB59A13C44B for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:11:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kip.macy@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o2so187779uge for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:11:40 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=SibRFPpmS41Do+UjtY7gmZem96yfAtoUiGGbDujpLciMijS20jX7PclbLou6TuAvK0bOOFF1I1rIvr2LcLb9+Jo7tRo6fTyLmyxrMooQMRvn9qPyVUKt1rhoLYQNj9Rq342+cCs/dwc/EnS6plI5JBz1rblHDccq9dCH7UksqsA= Received: by 10.82.105.13 with SMTP id d13mr257348buc.1169655099130; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:11:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.191.16 with HTTP; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:11:38 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:11:38 -0800 From: "Kip Macy" To: "Patrick Bowen" , current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <45B74A72.9080108@fastmail.fm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <45B74A72.9080108@fastmail.fm> Cc: Subject: Re: WiFi driver companies X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:11:41 -0000 It has frequently been mentioned that Ralink is open. However, I have no vendor contact information so I cannot confirm that. For maintaining and extending the ralink drivers I rely on the linux driver put out by ralink as a reference. The atheros driver is extremely well supported, and for the foreseeable future will continue to be your best choice when using freebsd. To the best of my knowledege the only chipset which has publicly available documentation is the Prism II with Intersil firmware - which is supported by wi(4) (which I wish everyone would throwaway so I could stop throwing band-aid after band-aid at it and spend the time adding 11n support). Cheers, Kip On 1/24/07, Patrick Bowen wrote: > Which of the wifi drivers are supported by chipset companies that > provide source and documentation to the Open Source community? I'd like > to support those companies that support FreeBSD. > > > I think that Ralink is one of those companies, but I believe there are > others. > > Thanks, > Patrick > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >