From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 24 18:10:52 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 DCFF816A400 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:10:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [69.12.149.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADAA813C43E for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:10:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from [10.0.0.248] (trouble.errno.com [10.0.0.248]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.13.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id l0OHsRdF037907 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:54:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Message-ID: <45B79D53.5080503@errno.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:54:27 -0800 From: Sam Leffler User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kip Macy References: <45B74A72.9080108@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Patrick Bowen , current@freebsd.org 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 18:10:52 -0000 Kip Macy wrote: > 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). FWIW the Prism docs were never public; they were just so widely circulated under the table that it just seemed like that :) I know of no wifi vendors that openly distribute information about their products (though something makes me think atmel does/did?). ralink has never responded to my requests for information despite various folks claims. Most vendors just stick out linux drivers and people take 'em apart to do bsd drivers. Sam