By the way, add Realtek and Ralink (now Mediatek) to the above list of companies writing drivers for Linux.
And now name a wifi chipset that isn't made by one of these companies. :-)
It's awesome that Linux has achieved this kind of support. But this is a luxury. Don't take it for granted. It took a long time and a lot of energy to get there. These companies are still keeping hardware docs under NDAs so it is very hard for other open source systems to compete fairly.
And now name a wifi chipset that isn't made by one of these companies. :-)
It's awesome that Linux has achieved this kind of support. But this is a luxury. Don't take it for granted. It took a long time and a lot of energy to get there. These companies are still keeping hardware docs under NDAs so it is very hard for other open source systems to compete fairly.