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Subject: Re: Porting the OpenBSD free Atheros HAL
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deker@slackdot.org wrote:
> You're right, it does. However, myself and collegue recently presented 
> our work in raw Atheros raw frame injection at ToorCon based on the 
> Atheros HAL and Sam's driver/HAL wrapper. If you're familliar with these 
> cards and their current status in the open-source world, you'll know 
> that the only method of using them relies solely on the binary-only HAL 
> provided by Atheros that Sam Leffler was kind enough to wrap in a 
> FreeBSD driver shell. 

Would this give us AMD64 support for atheros cards? 

Mark