On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Jan 31 2007 09:58, alan wrote:
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Jan 30 2007 14:00, Roland Dreier wrote:
An uncharitable vendor might decide it's not worth publishing specs,
since the Linux guys can reverse engineer the Windows driver just as
fast anyway.
And ndiswrapper gives fire to just releasing the Windows one :(
ndiswrapper is a way to make it work "now" as opposed to "correct".
There is a lot that you cannot do with ndiswrapper that a proper driver
can.
The fear is that a vendor might not open things because it works
"reasonably enough" (for them as well as the enduser) at "this time".
E.g. I got sis162u.inf for some usb wireless adapter, it works
enough, but of course I am not too happy with the binary blob because
it might have some not-so-"correct" core that could silently oops me
away.
Of course, the vendors need to realize that such problems will be blamed
on the hardware and not on the drivers. "But I was using the Windows
drivers!"
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