From: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Subject: Re: WLAN drivers
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 19:14:01 +0000
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On Friday 03 February 2006 18:06, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 12:35 +0000, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> > In my experience, you're simply best going to either
> > http://prism54.org/ (if you can find one still) or http://madwifi.org/
> > (modern cards, likely to be purchasable), and then buying one of the
> > cards on the "known to work" lists. If you buy the wrong revision,
> > return it.
>
> Isn't madwifi a proprietary driver?  Are things really so bad that
> people on LKML are recommending users buy this junk?

Yes.

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.'
Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
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