Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 09:24:54 -0800
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
       Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, jt@hpl.hp.com,
       Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Announce: ndiswrapper
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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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