Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264389AbTKURx3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Nov 2003 12:53:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264394AbTKURx3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Nov 2003 12:53:29 -0500 Received: from twilight.ucw.cz ([81.30.235.3]:906 "EHLO twilight.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264389AbTKURx1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Nov 2003 12:53:27 -0500 Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 18:43:34 +0100 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: Jeff Garzik Cc: jt@hpl.hp.com, Vojtech Pavlik , Linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: Announce: ndiswrapper Message-ID: <20031121174334.GA22734@ucw.cz> References: <20031120031137.GA8465@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <3FBC3483.4060706@pobox.com> <20031120033422.GA8674@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <20031121120534.GA20822@ucw.cz> <20031121172541.GB25453@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <3FBE4BC7.20605@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FBE4BC7.20605@pobox.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1559 Lines: 40 On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:30:47PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > >On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 01:05:34PM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > > >>On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 07:34:22PM -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > >> > >> > >>> Excuse me ? Have you looked at the Howto lately ? There is > >>>only Broadcom and Intel which are not supported, which leaves plenty > >>>of choice (including many 802.11g and 802.11a cards). > >> > >>And Realtek (I own one such card) and ADMtek (I bought one by accident > >>in Canada) and Atheros and ... basically anything CardBus doesn't work. > > > > > > Wrong. There are wireless drivers for RealTek, ADMtek and > >Atheros. > > I may repeat myself like a parrot, but "Have you looked at the > >Howto lately ?". I think you exactly prove my point ;-) > > > Last I checked, none of these were 100% open source. I am certain this > is true for Atheros, but IIRC it's also the case for the other two? > > Anyway, WRT RealTek, they gave me (and others) docs. If I can locate a > card, I'll do a driver (or merge an existing one, if any). RealTek's > been pretty supportive of open source in the past, what with > 8139too/8139cp/r8169 stuff. If you want, I will send you one. The Edimax EW-7106PC is a Realtek based card. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs, SuSE CR - 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/