Re: [Madwifi-users] what is HAL?

[Bob L. <bjl...@lo...>]

On 05/28/04 13:59 Per Bjornsson spoke:
> Bob Lockie wrote:
> 
>> Should I be worried that if Atheros goes out of business that the HAL 
>> will no longer be available?
> 
> 
> The HAL should still be available in whatever shape it's in, I'm pretty 
> sure that it's redistributable. Since it's pretty OS-independent 
> (apparently the same binary blob can be used both in e.g. both Linux and 
> the BSDs) it should be possibler to get it to work in later Linux 
> versions as well, with any luck. Sounds like a really marginal risk to 
> me, not one I'd really consider if I was buying a card.
> 
>> What does the firmware for prism cards do?
>> Should I be worried about them going out of business.
> 
> 
> Even less risky, the firmware is just uploaded to the card, the only 
> thing that would happen would be that firmware bugs would never get fixed.

Thanks for the information.
Cards based on a Prism chipset are hard to find cheap so I'll probably 
end up with an Atheros card. :-)