Re: Announce: ndiswrapper

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Thu Nov 20 2003 - 00:26:40 EST


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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