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From: Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: Atheros Open Hal
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On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 12:00:09PM +1200, marcos@silkweb.net.nz wrote:
> Hi there.
>   I don't care much about politics but I could tell you that I used
> Freebsd hal for a very long time, I've got more 600 wifi PCs running
> BSD. the best feature about the open hal is that it's open. with the
> open hal in Linux you are now able to run license frequencies, use 5Mhz,
> 10Mhz or 20Mhz per channel , etc.... I would love to have a driver with
> all that features to run on freebsd and I'm sure that will be the same
> interets from many other freebsd/wifi users.

Half and quarter channel support was added over six months ago. You may
want to check the branch you are using, its probably there.


cheers,
Andrew