For the past fours years (or more) I've been working on improving the state of wireless networking support in the open source community. These efforts have affected all the groups, either directly--by providing new software, or indirectly--by enabling access to new wireless technology. Along the way there have been twists and turns as some groups have leveraged this work while others have not.

This talk will describe the efforts to bring state of the art wireless networking support to the open source community and review the good, the bad, and the ugly that have happened along the way.