On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 14:58 -0400, Mike Burger wrote:
> Just a side note...unsupported by Red Hat/Fedora does not mean
> non-free.
> 
> The MadWifi drivers are, as I recall, open source.

Not completely. The problem is that they use a HAL layer which is
binary-only and taints the kernel. The ath5k project is an attempt to
get round this using only free software. See
http://madwifi.org/wiki/About/ath5k

poc

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