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. To find out more about this situation, I interviewed representatives from
network chip manufacturers and programmers from free software operating systems. Their answers are below.
The battle for wireless network drivers
The battle for wireless network drivers
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