Re: Announce: ndiswrapper

From: Jean Tourrilhes
Date: Wed Nov 19 2003 - 22:35:03 EST


On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:26:59PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> >Jeff Garzik wrote :
> >>Then help us reverse engineer the driver :)
>
> >
> > 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.
>
>
> Unfortunately that leaves users without support for any recent wireless
> hardware.

Excuse me ? Have you looked at the Howto lately ? There is
only Broadcom and Intel which are not supported, which leaves plenty
of choice (including many 802.11g and 802.11a cards).

> It gets more and more difficult to even find Linux-supported
> wireless at Fry's and other retail locations...

If you are careful, you can even buy at Fry's. I bought
recently some Microsoft cards ;-)

> Jeff

Jean
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