Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Nov 2003 09:24:54 -0800 | Subject | Re: Announce: ndiswrapper | From | Jean Tourrilhes <> |
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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.
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