From: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
To: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
Cc: 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 09:52:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AC074A82-2B17-485A-9BFE-090CB4EE6E44@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42F872E3.3050106@scram.de>
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, even if it's just testing a new driver.
Cheers,
Kyle Moffett
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-09 13:52 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 [this message]
2005-08-09 14:24 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
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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