On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 07:58:55PM -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can any one make a success reporn on plugging any wifi card in an > alpha machine? Would like to do so, but there exist so many hardware > types and drivers, large parts of them is not opensource, some need > binary modules which may be platform dependant etc.
If you have a binary kernel module, you indeed have no recourse for getting the device to work with alpha. But the vast majority of drivers are not binary-only; many include binary-only firmware, but firmware is run on the device not on the host processor, so this doesn't prevent the driver from working on alpha. I have no direct experience with wireless on alpha, because I have no reason not to use the perfectly good wires already in place; but the vast majority of wireless network devices should work under alpha just as well as they do under other architectures. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]