On Friday 02 September 2005 09:08, Alex Davis wrote: > ndiswrapper and driverloader will not work reliably with 4k stacks. > This is because of the Windoze drivers they use, to which, obviously, > they do not have the source. Since quite a few laptops have built-in > wireless cards by companies who will not release an open-source driver, > or won't release specs, ndiswrapper and driverloader are the only way > to get these cards to work. > Please don't tell me to "get a linux-supported wireless card". I don't > want the clutter of an external wireless adapter sticking out of my laptop, > nor do I want to spend money on a card when I have a free and working > solution.
Please don't tell me to "care for closed-source drivers". I don't want the pain of debugging crashes on the machines which run unknown code in kernel space. IOW, if you run closed source modules - it's _your_ problem, not ours. -- vda - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
