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Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 18:38:57 est5edt
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From:  "Jens Glathe" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
To:  "os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
Subject: OS/2 Wireless Users List: Devi ce driver development

On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 07:32:53 est5edt, Alan Beagley wrote:

Hi!

>That was quick:
>
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>
>Hi Alan,
>Yes, I have likely written more drivers for 802.11 devices than anyone.
>I've worked with may of the 11b chipsets and more recently worked on
>some of the new dual band (2.4 GHz and 5. GHz) 802.11 devices, including
>work with 11g hardware.
>
>Also, I have a lot of OS/2 device driver work in my past.
>
>If I were to make a wild guess, I'd say an OS/2 device driver could be
>developed and tested from scratch in 2 months.  Our rates run $125/hour.
>If we add a 50% contingency for the unknowns (making this a 2 to 3 month
>project), the project costs would run in the range of $40k to $60k with
>a timeframe of 8 to 12 weeks.
>
>Let me know if you would like me to consider this further.
>
>Thanks for contacting me.
>
>Larry Cawley
>CreativeMedia Software Solutions, Inc.
>www.CreativeMediaSoftware.com
>
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>
>-=-
>Alan
>
>
>century@cloud9.net wrote:
>
>>     Anybody care to contact him to see how much he'd do a, say, Linksys
>> driver for? Once you have one done, additional should be fairly easy to
>> synthesize from the first.

Time to say something. There is a generic PRISM 2/2.5/3 driver for PCCards with Intersil firmware, which 
includes lots of cards - I have tested the driver with a LinkSys WPC11 V.3.1, too. The driver is not publicly 
available because there is still a legal issue to be resolved. I am working on a version which doesn't have 
the legal problem by avoiding proprietary code which needs to be licensed, but this will take some time.

with best regards

Jens Glathe.

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