Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

From: alan
Date: Wed Jan 31 2007 - 13:27:17 EST


On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:


On Jan 30 2007 14:00, Roland Dreier wrote:

An uncharitable vendor might decide it's not worth publishing specs,
since the Linux guys can reverse engineer the Windows driver just as
fast anyway.

And ndiswrapper gives fire to just releasing the Windows one :(

ndiswrapper is a way to make it work "now" as opposed to "correct". There is a lot that you cannot do with ndiswrapper that a proper driver can.

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