Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Wednesday 08 June 2005 15:35, Ian Kumlien wrote:
> > Number of folks using ndiswrapper for acx100/acx111
> > while acx team needs help on native driver debugging
> > worries me.
> 
> two things:
> 	1, Broadcom chipsets lack any kind of driver.
> 	2, acx100/111 claim that the firm ware is 'easy to find this is a ...
> lie... F.ex. d-links drivers come with the drivers embedded in some
> file, i was unable to extract it for my neighbur and ended up using
> ndiswrapper. There was no choise.
> 
> Thus your statement is premature.

acx driver would not improve if few people will use it.

Caring for ndiswrapper needs helps closed source binary drivers,
thus harms open source driver development.

Re firmware files: I've collected many at
http://195.66.192.167/linux/acx100/acx1xx.htm
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vda

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