Because It Has To Be Free / WLAN Support In OpenBSD

Lots of new vendors and products
Massive complexity of the chipset design
Features, features, features...
The trend to replace flash-based firmware with runtime-loaded firmware
...or even SDRs (software defined radios)

"Because It Has To Be Free / WLAN Support In OpenBSD", BSDCan, Ottawa, 2005-05-13
Reyk Floeter (reyk@openbsd.org)
OpenBSD Project (http://www.openbsd.org/)

The next generation of WLAN-chipsets
Lots of new vendors and products Massive complexity of the chipset design Features, features, features... The trend to replace flash-based firmware with runtime-loaded firmware ...or even SDRs (software defined radios)

	"Because It Has To Be Free / WLAN Support In OpenBSD", BSDCan, Ottawa, 2005-05-13 Reyk Floeter (reyk@openbsd.org) OpenBSD Project (http://www.openbsd.org/)