Over the past two days I've been bombarded with PayPal donations to the Wifi Bounty :)

Consequently, the goal of $2000 has been reached! Colin has been making some steady progress and had to push his deadline back a bit, but we're behind him in reaching this goal as he already has a partially functioning stack and is looking for testers.

-----------------------

*Update: I misinterpreted Colin's bounty goals and latest blog update. There will be a FreeBSD WLAN stack on September 24th, but without the Haiku-specific native part. The original bounty goals were:

• WLAN stack compiles errorfree within Haiku-gcc2
• FreeBSD 7.1 WLAN-drivers compile errorfree
• At least 90% of the testers passed testcriterias
• Configuration tools are working in respect of the testenvironment
• Atheros driver is working in respect of the testenvironment

- only infrastructure-mode
- only client-acting
- only 2.4 GHz band support
- only 54 Mbps datarate (IEEE-802.11g)
- only unsecured connections
- only http & ftp tested
- only gcc2-version of Haiku

Beyond this bounty, and for completing his Master's thesis he plans to:

• From 2009-09-28 till 2009-10-28 Finishing the design of the Haiku-tailored object oriented WLAN Stack with little respect to any FreeBSD compatibility
• From 2009-11-01 till 2009-12-01 Writing down my master-thesis about the outcome of 2.
• From 2009-12-03 till 2010-01-10 Preparing the defence of the thesis

After his thesis is complete he'll:

• Extend for FreeBSD compatibility
• Implement it.

-----------------------
Thanks to all those who donated to make this possible. That said, it doesn't mean we're not taking any more donations; if you like Colin's work and think you'll benefit from it, then go ahead (PayPal will eat 4.5% of the bounty).