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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 21 November 2003 01:00, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 04:53:12PM -0700, Mudama, Eric wrote: > > I think the point being made is "Why spend an extra $150 on a PCMCIA wifi > > card when there's an integrated wifi device already in the laptop that > > ndiswrapper will allow to sortof work?" > > > > The person who bought this laptop and wants to run linux on it might not > > have the extra money handy to use buying additional hardware. > > > > Not my point of view, but definitely "a" point of view. > > > > --eric > > My point is : why buy this laptop if it's not 100% > supported ? They are plenty of other laptops... > I can guarantee you that I'm more picky and more cheap than > anyone when choosing laptops, and I always get something 100% > supported. I, too, am the owner of a 'centrino' laptop, which comes with the intel Pro/ wireless 2100 card. At the time I bought it, Intel said that they would be providing linux support for centrino, and since they made good on their claims in the past, I went ahead and bought it. Unfortunately, until now, they haven't substansiated that claim yet. And, I'm not really willing to cough up another 150-200 EUR for another minipci card, which - in some cases - - even has to be of a specific type to work with the bios of the system! So, driverloader or ndiswrapper provides me with a workable solution, even though it's not really the way I like it. But it works. That's what counts for the majority of the 'desktop/laptop' linux users. They don't care how it happens, as long as it happens. Personally I'm only half in that camp, since I like to use opensource & free drivers/software if available, and will advocate the use of such software. If no decent os substitutes are available, I'll use proprietary/binary only stuff nevertheless. Jan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/vcWiUQQOfidJUwQRAp8dAJ9vxrt7K2nC9JkJgzGNw1ewsgrjNQCfTtMy P8eS3BHEjw/eBxzKNLveVMk= =/vnv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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