The key to the word &quot;traditionally&quot; is that it refers to a relatively long period, historically speaking.&nbsp; (The phrase &quot;new tradition&quot; is oxymoronic beyond description.)&nbsp; <br><br>Perhaps that &quot;tradition&quot; has been altered by 
<a href="http://www.atheros.com/news/linux.html">Atheros&#39; cooperation with the FOSS community</a>:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
<font color="#666666"><b>SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 23, 2003</b></font>—Atheros 
Communications, the leading developer and market share leader in advanced 
wireless LAN (WLAN) chipsets, today announced that the first open source Linux 
and FreeBSD software drivers for 802.11b/g and universal 802.11a/b/g products 
are now available as a free download from the Internet.<br></blockquote><br>That&#39;s about how old Monsterette 1.2 is; it&#39;s hard to describe anything she does&nbsp; &quot;traditionally&quot;.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Dec 26, 2007 3:19 PM, Mark Gardner &lt;<a href="mailto:markgard@gmail.com">markgard@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">&gt; My wife&#39;s laptop has Atheros WiFi. &nbsp;What&#39;s wrong with it?<br><br></div>Traditionally has poor Linux support.<br></blockquote></div><br>