Mike McCarty wrote:
John Summerfied wrote:
Justin Willmert wrote:
I just found this list:
http://www.linuxcompatible.org/compatibility.html
not FC4 specific but it's a place to start.
Try http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/. It provides a kernel module
so you can load windows drivers. It's how I got my wireless lan card
to work.
Please, don't buy a card based on its working with ndiswrapper.
Instead, reward those vendors who help us by providing or helping with
Linux support.
A Windows driver could potentially do Bad Things to your system.
A Linux driver could potentially do Bad Things to your system. So?
If you have a linux driver, you (probably) have the source and can fix
it, hire someone to fix it etc etc just as with any other Linux software.
IMO, the fewer fingers in the pie, generally, the better. Making drivers
from one OS try to run on another does not sound like a good idea to me.
Whether they be Windows or Linux or whatever is irrelevant.
What do you do if the Windows driver's broken? What do you suppose the
vendor will do? Laugh?
In my experience, they fix it, and offer upgrades by free download from
their
If it doesn't work under Linux? you gotta be joking.
web pages. What happens if a Linux driver is broken? "Well, you have the
source. Fix it yourself!"
If it's a part of RHEL or FC< report it in RH's bugzilla. It will get
attention.
Many times I've approached authors of OSS and almost without exception
they've been anxious to help iron out the bugs.
I've never had to pay to report a problem wither.
I subscribed to this mail echo in hopes of getting useful information
about how
to make my machine run a little better with Linux. I didn't expect to
see a lot
of moaning about how vendors don't spend oodles of money developing
stuff for their products so they will run with a less-used operating
system.
They make their choices, users make their own. Prudent users ask for and
listen to advice about what works.
[snip]
Chipset vendors to avoid;
Broadcom
TI
Is this a technical or a personal criticism? Why don't you write a
driver for these
cards? I think that's the usual "Linux community" response.
It's not so simple. Those vendors do not provide the information needed.
Without the specs, it's very difficult. People are working on them, but
if you want working wireless, there are products from vendors who do help.
If you google the dlink website, you will find help for Linux users.
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Cheers
John
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