Re: [Madwifi-users] Status of 'HAL status 13' error

[Curtis L. F. <cu...@fu...>]

Stefan,

I have the exact card you have, and it doesn't work with the latest HAL.

Madwifi users are getting the worst of both worlds. We have to deal with
the understandable issues that are inherent in a volunteer project like
Madwifi - except we don't actually get to see the source.

No source means getting Hal freakin status 13 no matter what you do but
not even being able to use printk to see what in Christ is going on.

Apparently releasing the HAL code would be a violation of FCC law as it
would allow poor slobs like us to interfere with wifi transmissions at
will. (As if $15 in parts from radio shack wouldn't get the job done.)

Of course most of us know what's going on here. Atheros is screwing the
open source community. They're getting free, tested Linux drivers without
having to give the public even a glimpse of their holy intellectual
property.

I say Boycott Atheros-based products until they learn some manners.

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, "Stefan Näwe" wrote:

> 
> I really don't want to sound impatient and appreciate very much 
> all the effort that all madwifi developers are putting into this project but
> it
> would be really nice if any of the just mentioned people could give any kind
> of status update of the problem some people (including me) have with
> that particular atheros chipset used at least in the DWL-G650 v.B3 and
> Netgear WG511T that's causing the 'HAL status 13' error.
> I just want to know if the problem is located and if anyone is working on
> that topic.
> 
> Thank you very much for your work and your help
> 
> Stefan Näwe (unfortunate owner of a WG511T...)
> 
>