Re: Wireless support

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 13:48 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 09:31 +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > On Monday 08 August 2005 03:39, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 15:22 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > > > Is the Linksys WUSB 54GS wireless adapter (FCCID Q87-WUSB54GS)
> > > > supported?
> > > 
> > > Normally, linksys doesn't care much about Linux and they won't even
> > > release info for a driver. Yeah, they have some open info for the WRT's
> > > but the adapters are normally usable with ndiswrapper or Linuxant
> > > driver.
> > 
> > The more I read this, the more I think about usefulness of blacklisting
> > ndiswrapper.
> 
> What's your reasoning?  The technical aspect of the argument is obvious
> (incompatible with 4K stacks) but the political side seems insolvable.
> Wouldn't this leave thousands of users with non working hardware?\

arguably it doesn't really work with ndiswrapper either; only most of
the time (due to windows having a 12kb stack)... and it's effectively a
binary only kernel module.

it also provides a discentive for vendors to provide real linux
drivers....