From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
Cc: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>,
abonilla@linuxwireless.org, "'Andreas Steinmetz'" <ast@domdv.de>,
"'Arjan van de Ven'" <arjan@infradead.org>,
"'Denis Vlasenko'" <vda@ilport.com.ua>,
"'linux-kernel'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Wireless support
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 16:24:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200508091624.17381.rjw@sisk.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AC074A82-2B17-485A-9BFE-090CB4EE6E44@mac.com>
On Tuesday, 9 of August 2005 15:52, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> On Aug 9, 2005, at 05:09:55, Jochen Friedrich wrote:
> > Third, both ndiswrapper and binary-only drivers only work on one
> > platform.
> >
> > E.g. broadcom has a binary-only driver for their WLAN card on
> > Linux, but
> > only for mipsel (wrt54g).
> >
> > On Alpha or PowerPC, most WLAN equipment doesn't work under Linux,
> > at all.
>
> Definitely. I want my Airport Extreme to work! Many users of the
> BCM4301 chip can get it to work (kinda) with Linux via ndiswrapper,
> but that means they are much less likely to participate in any kind of
> reverse engineering effort,
Do you know of anyone actually doing it?
Rafael
--
- Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
- That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.
-- Lewis Carroll "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-09 14:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-07 19:22 Lee Revell
2005-08-07 19:56 ` Lee Revell
2005-08-08 5:50 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-08-08 17:57 ` Lee Revell
2005-08-08 0:39 ` Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
2005-08-08 1:20 ` Lee Revell
2005-08-08 1:29 ` Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
2005-08-08 6:31 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-08-08 17:48 ` Lee Revell
2005-08-08 17:51 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-08-08 18:13 ` Andreas Steinmetz
2005-08-08 18:19 ` Lee Revell
2005-08-08 18:24 ` Andreas Steinmetz
2005-08-08 18:27 ` Lee Revell
2005-08-08 18:56 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-08-08 19:06 ` Lee Revell
2005-08-08 19:55 ` alan
2005-08-08 23:29 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-08-08 23:43 ` Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
2005-08-09 9:09 ` Jochen Friedrich
2005-08-09 13:52 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-08-09 14:24 ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2005-08-09 16:09 ` Jochen Friedrich
2005-08-12 2:40 ` Lee Revell
2005-08-12 2:59 ` roucaries bastien
2005-08-12 3:17 ` Lee Revell
2005-08-12 4:18 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-08-08 19:27 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
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