Re: Announce: ndiswrapper

From: Richard B. Johnson
Date: Thu Nov 20 2003 - 13:01:42 EST


On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 08:00:34PM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> > Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> > >> Even better :
> > >> 1) go to the Wireless LAN Howto
> > >> 2) find a card are supported under Linux that suit your needs
> > >> 3) buy this card
> > >> I don't see the point of giving our money to vendors that
> > >> don't care about us when there are vendors making a real effort toward
> > >> us.
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:26:59PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > > Unfortunately that leaves users without support for any recent wireless
> > > hardware. It gets more and more difficult to even find Linux-supported
> > > wireless at Fry's and other retail locations...
> >
> > And what good would it be to have an entire driver subsystem populated
> > by binary-only drivers? That's not part of Linux, that's "welcome to
> > nvidia hell" for that subsystem too, and not just graphics cards.
>
> What's the point in ruminating academic scenario. There exist
> fully open source drivers for quite a wide variety of modern wireless
> LAN cards. It's not like if you don't have the choice.
>
> Jean

It's kinda interesting that several Wireless LAN boxen even
use Linux.... I suppose they don't want anybody to know
that, though....

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.22 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.


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