Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Nov 2003 00:25:10 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Announce: ndiswrapper |
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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. > > I say we should go the precise opposite direction and take a hard line > stance against binary drivers, lest we find there are none left we even > have source to and are bombarded with unfixable bugreports.
Who brought binary drivers into this? And when I have ever advocated binary drivers?
ndiswrapper has one use IMHO (which was pointed out me in this thread)... to assist in reverse engineering.
Jeff
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