From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:45:23 -0800 Message-ID: <4e6ca2050901190145w2cacd17qa240515d0f9b6cd@mail.gmail.com> From: Akshat Kumar To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Les Mis?rables Topicbox-Message-UUID: 82a71ca0-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 2009/1/18 jimmy brisson : ... > When did supporting Atheros wireless cards stop being a solution? > > As a High School senior, I have tons of time on my hands, but very > little experince. > Therefore, I am could be handed the sorce for a working wifi driver > and replicate it for > Atheros based cards (using my current linux wifi driver for reference). > In other words, could someone point me in the right direction? See the great Eric Smith who thought he could -- and related messages: http://9fans.net/archive/2006/04/286 Sadly, most of that time will probably go into hopes and failures of the replication idea, and by the time college starts up, you'll have learned just enough to no longer have any more time to write working driver code. In short: it's not easy (see jmk's post as reply to the above reference). > thanks, > Jimmy an import(4) for free time would be very valuable -- I would not have needed a hammer and chisel as a printing device, usable with Plan 9, ak