Comments on: Now, now Chris http://www.j5live.com/2005/10/23/now-now-chris/ Where the urethane hits the pavement Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:34:18 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Wouter Bolsterlee http://www.j5live.com/2005/10/23/now-now-chris/comment-page-1/#comment-1832 Wouter Bolsterlee Sun, 23 Oct 2005 19:12:22 +0000 http://www.martianrock.com/?p=158#comment-1832 nm-applet does already register itself in the session... Now if only dhcp would work... :( nm-applet does already register itself in the session…

Now if only dhcp would work… :(

]]> By: ben http://www.j5live.com/2005/10/23/now-now-chris/comment-page-1/#comment-1831 ben Sun, 23 Oct 2005 17:17:54 +0000 http://www.martianrock.com/?p=158#comment-1831 OpenBSD devs did a call to the whole OSS community to join for lobbying wireless chipsets vendors (to obtain the specs and the right to redistribute the binary firmwares when needed). This succeeded for several chipset vendors (most notably, but not only, Ralink). For others this failed until now, so the call is still open. See: http://kerneltrap.org/node/4118 http://kerneltrap.org/node/4115 http://kerneltrap.org/node/4061 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109889560011966&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109899939518417&w=2 I was suprised about what you said about Intel. They where among the worst player at those times. Did this changed ? http://kerneltrap.org/node/4202 The bad players here need to be named so they'll eventually ear our need for specs: Texas Instrument, Connexant, Broadcomm (and maybe Intel ?). OpenBSD devs did a call to the whole OSS community to join for lobbying
wireless chipsets vendors (to obtain the specs and the right to
redistribute the binary firmwares when needed).

This succeeded for several chipset vendors (most notably, but not only,
Ralink). For others this failed until now, so the call is still open.

See:
http://kerneltrap.org/node/4118
http://kerneltrap.org/node/4115
http://kerneltrap.org/node/4061
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109889560011966&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109899939518417&w=2

I was suprised about what you said about Intel. They where among the worst
player at those times. Did this changed ?
http://kerneltrap.org/node/4202

The bad players here need to be named so they’ll eventually ear our need for
specs: Texas Instrument, Connexant, Broadcomm (and maybe Intel ?).

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