The battle for wireless network drivers

Posted by SamShazaam on Dec 22, 2006 5:24 AM EDT
The Jem Report; By Jem Matzan 		Mail this story
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BSD and Linux programmers have had a lot of success in creating drivers for new computer hardware in a timely manner, but much of their effort has been without the support of major hardware manufacturers. Intel, Marvell, Texas Instruments and Broadcom, though separate and competing entities, seem by one consent to prevent non-Microsoft operating systems from working properly with some of their most widely-used network chips.

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good read just for the PR adventures tuxchick 0 929 Dec 22, 2006 10:55 AM

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