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This was in my mail tonight -- maybe you could forward this to the UMLUG
list to follow up on one gentleman's question about wireless support in
Fedora.
Paul
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> From: Rahul Sundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora
> user base <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Atheros hires ath5k developer
> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:00:05 +0530
>
> Hi
>
> Not Fedora specific but considering that this has been a long standing
> issue, we couldn't solve immediately without non-free bits, this is very
> good news.
>
> http://lwn.net/Articles/278132/rss
>
> "When kernel developers talk about problematic hardware vendors, Atheros
> often appears near the top of their lists. So this announcement from
> Luis Rodriguez, a developer of the reverse-engineered ath5k driver, is
> intriguing: "I write to you to inform you that I have decided to join
> Atheros as a full time employee, as a Software Engineer, to help them
> with their goals and mission to get every device of Atheros supported
> upstream in the Linux kernel." What will come of this remains to be
> seen, but if it truly signals a change of heart at Atheros (and isn't a
> late April 1 posting), it is a most welcome development. "
>
> Rahul
>
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