Damien Bergamini is a former OpenBSD

OpenBSD

OpenBSD is a Unix-like computer operating system descended from Berkeley Software Distribution , a Unix derivative developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It was forked from NetBSD by project leader Theo de Raadt in late 1995...

 developer who has written numerous device drivers for wireless

Wireless

Wireless telecommunications is the transfer of information between two or more points that are not physically connected. Distances can be short, such as a few meters for television remote control, or as far as thousands or even millions of kilometers for deep-space radio communications...

 chipset

Chipset

A chipset, PC chipset, or chip set refers to a group of integrated circuits, or chips, that are designed to work together. They are usually marketed as a single product.- Computers :...

s, almost half of the wireless device drivers available on the open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

 BSD operating system

Operating system

An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...

s. Bergamini's drivers for the Intel PRO/Wireless chipset have been ported to all the *BSD systems, as well as to OpenSolaris

OpenSolaris

OpenSolaris was an open source computer operating system based on Solaris created by Sun Microsystems. It was also the name of the project initiated by Sun to build a developer and user community around the software...

. In a 2006 presentation entitled "Open Documentation for Hardware", OpenBSD leader Theo de Raadt

Theo de Raadt

Theo de Raadt , born May 19, 1968 in Pretoria, South Africa, is a software engineer who lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is the founder and leader of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects, and was a founding member of the NetBSD project.- Childhood :...

 commented that Bergamini is "becoming the Bill Paul of wireless" http://www.openbsd.org/papers/opencon06-docs/mgp00012.html.

External links

• Damien Bergamini's home page
• Interview: Jonathan Gray and Damien Bergamini, KernelTrap
  KernelTrap
  KernelTrap is a computing news website which covered topics related to the development of free and open source operating system kernels, and especially, the Linux kernel....
  
  , 2006-04-19
• OpenBSD: wpi, A Blob Free Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver, KernelTrap
  KernelTrap
  KernelTrap is a computing news website which covered topics related to the development of free and open source operating system kernels, and especially, the Linux kernel....
  
  , 2006-05-28
• OpenBSD: Intel Accused Of Being "An Open Source Fraud", KernelTrap
  KernelTrap
  KernelTrap is a computing news website which covered topics related to the development of free and open source operating system kernels, and especially, the Linux kernel....
  
  , 2006-09-30
• WPA/WPA2 Support in OpenBSD, OpenBSD Journal, 2008-04-16