From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932553AbVHIOSw (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 10:18:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932552AbVHIOSv (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 10:18:51 -0400 Received: from grendel.sisk.pl ([217.67.200.140]:42653 "HELO mail.sisk.pl") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932551AbVHIOSv (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 10:18:51 -0400 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Kyle Moffett Subject: Re: Wireless support Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 16:24:16 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 Cc: Jochen Friedrich , Adrian Bunk , Lee Revell , abonilla@linuxwireless.org, "'Andreas Steinmetz'" , "'Arjan van de Ven'" , "'Denis Vlasenko'" , "'linux-kernel'" References: <005501c59c4a$f6210800$a20cc60a@amer.sykes.com> <42F872E3.3050106@scram.de> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508091624.17381.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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"