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Cc: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com>, "M. Vale" <maurovale@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: HI, I have a laptop with the Atheros AR5006EG
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Yuri Lukin wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:02:09 -0800, Sam Leffler wrote
>   
>> But there are still other parts that not supported by this hal and I 
>> have no idea if and/or when they ever will be.  Sorry, but Atheros 
>> stopped caring about open source users after certain folks left the company.
>>
>>     Sam
>>
>>     
>
> That's too bad because historically ath was the best bet for wireless in
> freebsd (imho). Do you think this will delay future work such as multi-bss or
> 802.11n in any way?
>   

No.