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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:01:50 -0700
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
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Subject: Re: Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC
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On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 03:55:58PM -0700, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> If I understand this correctly, madwifi is no longer a non-free driver?

MadWifi is based on a proprietary HAL which is slightly different
than this one, so no, its still non-free. The "free" drivers where
I think focus should be put in is ath5k and ath9k as they are now both
merged as part of the Linux kernel.

  Luis