Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:48:23 -0500 (EST) | | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | | Subject | Re: Announce: ndiswrapper |
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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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