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Did someone say 'crack'?
If you play your cards right, you may convince Broadcom's Henry T. Nicholas III to support Linux. He likes his crack.]]>Dec 3rd 2008 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/02/atheros-lets-open-source-devs-in-on-the-wifi-party/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/02/atheros-lets-open-source-devs-in-on-the-wifi-party/Dec 2nd 2008 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/02/atheros-lets-open-source-devs-in-on-the-wifi-party/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/02/atheros-lets-open-source-devs-in-on-the-wifi-party/http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/legacy-hal.tar.bz2

This is NOT the same HAL as used by the Madwifi drivers, however - it's the commercial HAL provided to licensed partners and won't work with madwifi, but is an excellent reference for the fully-open hal-less ath5k kernel drivers.

Fortunately, five days ago, Sam Leffler released the Madwifi HAL as well, http://madwifi-project.org/wiki/news/20081129/sam-leffler-releases-hal-source which is the HAL everyone knows and is drop-in usable with madwifi (and BSD drivers)]]>Dec 2nd 2008 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/02/atheros-lets-open-source-devs-in-on-the-wifi-party/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/02/atheros-lets-open-source-devs-in-on-the-wifi-party/Dec 2nd 2008 10:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/02/atheros-lets-open-source-devs-in-on-the-wifi-party/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/02/atheros-lets-open-source-devs-in-on-the-wifi-party/Dec 2nd 2008 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/02/atheros-lets-open-source-devs-in-on-the-wifi-party/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/02/atheros-lets-open-source-devs-in-on-the-wifi-party/ are champing at the bit.

Hm, perhaps they are chomping?
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