Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262069AbTKTR5V (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:57:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262074AbTKTR5V (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:57:21 -0500 Received: from chaos.analogic.com ([204.178.40.224]:13440 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262069AbTKTR5U (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:57:20 -0500 Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:48:23 -0500 (EST) From: "Richard B. Johnson" X-X-Sender: root@chaos Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com To: jt@hpl.hp.com cc: William Lee Irwin III , Jeff Garzik , Linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: Announce: ndiswrapper In-Reply-To: <20031120172454.GB14608@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Message-ID: References: <20031120031137.GA8465@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <3FBC3483.4060706@pobox.com> <20031120040034.GF19856@holomorphy.com> <20031120172454.GB14608@bougret.hpl.hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1689 Lines: 42 On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > 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 It's kinda interesting that several Wireless LAN boxen even use Linux.... I suppose they don't want anybody to know that, though.... Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.22 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/