Re: Wireless support

From: Jochen Friedrich
Date: Tue Aug 09 2005 - 11:10:52 EST


Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

>On Tuesday, 9 of August 2005 15:52, Kyle Moffett wrote:
>
>
>>On Aug 9, 2005, at 05:09:55, Jochen Friedrich wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Third, both ndiswrapper and binary-only drivers only work on one
>>>platform.
>>>
>>>E.g. broadcom has a binary-only driver for their WLAN card on
>>>Linux, but
>>>only for mipsel (wrt54g).
>>>
>>>On Alpha or PowerPC, most WLAN equipment doesn't work under Linux,
>>>at all.
>>>
>>>
>>Definitely. I want my Airport Extreme to work! Many users of the
>>BCM4301 chip can get it to work (kinda) with Linux via ndiswrapper,
>>but that means they are much less likely to participate in any kind of
>>reverse engineering effort,
>>
>>
>
>Do you know of anyone actually doing it?
>
>Rafael
>
>
>

See http://linux-bcom4301.sourceforge.net/

Jochen
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/