[openbeos] Re: bounties for the new website...wifi

On 8/29/06, Curtis Wanner <katisu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
They have also been very uncooperative with releasing specs to open source
projects.  A driver will require information from reverse engineering and
would be suspect at best.


Being that the norm and not the exception, I'm afraid that for the
time being (that means: until R3+) some sort of NDIS wrapper would be
much more beneficial to Haiku than spending developer resources on
reverse-engineering or clean-room rewriting drivers based on
documentation derived from GPL'd source or whatnot.

FWIW, that's just what yT did. And in my opinion writing an one-shot
wrapper which would enable one to tap into the ENORMOUS driver library
available for Windows was a brilliant decision. Native drivers may
then come as resources allow.

Cheers,
A.

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