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Longtime Linux Wireless Developer Passes Away


The Linux kernel community has sadly lost one of its longtime, prolific contributors to the wireless (WiFi) drivers.

The Linux kernel community has sadly lost one of its longtime, prolific contributors to the wireless (WiFi) drivers. In part to his contributions, the Linux wireless hardware support has come a long way over the past two decades... Longtime Linux users will certainly remember the days of struggling with WiFi support, resorting to NDISWrapper for using Windows WiFi drivers on Linux, and other headaches compared to today's largely trouble-free wireless hardware support.

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