The work to open WLAN-chipsets - Contacting the vendors
  • Theo de Raadt and Ryan McBride talked with vendors
  • Some simple goals:
    • Open the firmware or get a new and free license
    • Get hardware specs without signing any NDAs
    • ..or even reference drivers as a source of information
  • The right people are not easy to find
  • There are some answers, but it's not that easy...
"Because It Has To Be Free / WLAN Support In OpenBSD", BSDCan, Ottawa, 2005-05-13
Reyk Floeter (reyk@openbsd.org)
OpenBSD Project (http://www.openbsd.org/)