HEADS UP: Atheros 802.11 support

[Gregory P. Smith]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 11:40:13PM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote:
> My work to support the Atheros 802.11 hardware is now entirely in the tree 
> and enabled for use.  The ath driver supports all Atheros hardware devices 
> and makes FreeBSD the first open source system to support 802.11a and 
> 802.11g*.  There are still issues with the driver.  man ath(4) for details.
> 
> 	Sam
> 
> *First by a few days--there is also a Linux version of this software 
> available at <http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi/>.

maybe not, another linux driver already existed:  http://team.vantronix.net/ar5k/

Whos first and how first is defined doesn't matter.  Thanks for the work
to support a/g chipsets, i've been wanting to speed up my network.