Proactive Wireless Networks With OpenBSD
Author: Reyk Floeter

The work to open WLAN-chipsets - OpenBSD's ath
Supports some 802.11a/b/g chipsets by Atheros ("ar5xxx") Started as the "ar5k"-project for Linux in 2002 Implemented a free driver for the AR5000 First available IEEE 802.11a chipset Atheros wasn't really happy about it, hired a developer who wrote the ath-driver with a binary-only HAL which has been imported by FreeBSD and NetBSD ported to Linux calling it the "madwifi"-driver and never ever got imported into OpenBSD It has been re-written for OpenBSD ath(4) The driver first appeared in OpenBSD 3.7 (2005-05-19)
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