Re: Wireless support

[Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>]

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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