This does has some significance :) When we were using that SAGEM adsl 'modem' MT was giving out ... BSD users in Mauritius would have been forced to be without the net :p, but thankfully that dude had the driver ready!<div>
<br></div><div>Plus he was pretty attentive on bug reports and almost always responded positively! So yes news about him does has enough importance!</div><div><br></div><div>+selven<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Loganaden Velvindron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gnukid1@yahoo.co.uk">gnukid1@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit">Perhaps this fact might be interesting: instead of just shipping blobs<br>
that nobody can fix like freebsd/linux do, damien went the hard way and <br>reverse engineered Intel's ultra Complex wireless chipsets that many<br>linux programmers thought was impossible to do.<br><br>His dayjob has nothing to do with BSDs or wireless, it was just a<br>
hobby :-)<br><br>--- On <b>Sat, 10/9/11, Ajay R Ramjatan <i><<a href="mailto:ajay.ramjatan@gmail.com" target="_blank">ajay.ramjatan@gmail.com</a>></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px">
<br>From: Ajay R Ramjatan <<a href="mailto:ajay.ramjatan@gmail.com" target="_blank">ajay.ramjatan@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [<a href="http://lugm.org" target="_blank">lugm.org</a>] Damien Bergamini retires.<br>
To: "LUGM Discuss Mailing List" <<a href="mailto:discuss@lugm.org" target="_blank">discuss@lugm.org</a>><br>Date: Saturday, 10 September, 2011, 8:03<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div>Interesting but I don't think this news has enough significance to be
posted to the LUGM list.<br><br><div>On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 00:13, selven <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" href="http://mc/compose?to=pcthegreat@gmail.com" target="_blank">pcthegreat@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://damien.bergamini.free.fr" target="_blank">damien.bergamini.free.fr</a> it was actually. He was actually listening to people on that small ueagle problems forum he had!<div>
<div></div><div><br><br><div>On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:10 AM, selven <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" href="http://mc/compose?to=pcthegreat@gmail.com" target="_blank">pcthegreat@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex">:( here goes the ueagle guy :( :s <br><br>I would have had no understanding of adsl modems if it were not for this guy :(<br>
<br><div><div><div></div><div>On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Loganaden Velvindron <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" href="http://mc/compose?to=gnukid1@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">gnukid1@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Damien wrote countless BSD wifi drivers that just worked. It's a real loss<br>to see him gone. <br><br>(He is the Bill Paul of wifi)<br><br>As a testament to his incredible hacking skills, his ralink drivers<br>contains around 10 times less lines of code that the ralink driver<br>
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