Re: Announce: ndiswrapper

From: Jean Tourrilhes
Date: Thu Nov 20 2003 - 12:27:15 EST


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
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