MADWifi
MadWifi - a Linux kernel device driver for Wireless LAN chipsets from Atheros.
When madwifi-project.org was launched (sometime in the Fall of 2005) we switched to a new codebase submitted by Atheros. This new code offers advanced features, including, but not limited to, a new HAL, support for virtual APs and WDS.
Note: June 2006, "madwifi-old" has been deprecated, it is no longer supported. All users are encouraged to use an official release tarball, which contains a stable snapshot of svn trunk.
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This driver is not fully open source, it requires a hardware abstraction layer closed source binary.
supported chips
All PCI and Cardbus Devices with Chipset from Atheros
available devices
features
Enhanced Chipset Support
The HAL that comes along with the new code now supports almost all of chipsets that are currently available. There should be a new HAL soon which supports all of them except for USB chipsets.