GPL licensed 100% free software Atheros driver to be hosted on gnumonks.org

I've always intended to write a 100% free software driver for Atheros cards, based on the new IEEE80211 subsystem in the mainline kernel. I've even stated at OLS earlier this year that I'd start one. As with many of my projects, there was a significant lack of time.

Meanwhile, Mateusz Berezecki has written a beta-state driver for the ar5212 chipset based wireless cards. He has contacted me for hosting the driver on gnumonks.org. So this way I'll at least be able to provide some help with the driver this way ;).

I still intend to contribute to the driver (as time permits), as well as the core IEEE80211 stack in the Linux kernel. One of my must-have features is virtual access points, i.e. running as AP of multiple ESSID's with one card on one channel.

Back from holidays - catching up

So I'm back from holidays and are half way through reading the incredible backlog of emails.

It seems like netdev has been a bit more quiet than it was before, and surprisingly there were no more bug reports on the recently introduced netfilter code (nfnetlink, nfnetlink_log, nfnetlink_queue, nf_log, ...). So things seem to have settled down a bit.

Organization of the netfilter developer workshop seems to proceed quite fine, too. Travel sponsorships are taken care of, however we're still lacking some EUR 1600 for the cost of accommodation. If anyone (any company/organization) is interested in contributing to the netfilter project by funding accommodation for the workshop, please let me know.

Most of the 'interesting' new email seems to come in on the GPL violations front. I haven't yet analyzed any of the new alleged violations, but there seems to be plenty. It's a pity since it will again keep me from interesting real work. Also, there's still some minor cleanup to do in order to fully close the last 11 cases that I've dealt with...