-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 October 2003 04:18 pm, J.C. Woods wrote: > Praedor Atrebates wrote: > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >I just came across a message posted to the wlan-ng list. There is a > > company out there called "Linuxant" and they have released "Driveloader", > > a windoze driver compatibility layer and installer. Here is the info > > from their page: > > > >"DriverLoader is a revolutionary compatibility-wrapper allowing standard > >Windows NDIS (Network Driver Interface Specification) drivers shipped by > >hardware vendors to be used as-is on Linux x86 systems. [...] > > I can not help but to be skeptical butt... > Do keep us up to date on how these drivers work, if indeed they do...
The driveloader is free, as in beer, so they are not making (or trying to make) money off this from the enduser. This makes me less suspicious. Perhaps they are making use of wine in some capacity, in combination with non GPL code (the binary portion of the package). At this time I don't have a non-linux-friendly wlan card. I DID and likely will again as I am interested in going up to 802.11g. I suppose I could test the driveloader with another 802.11b card I have (which is also supported via the prism2 drivers) that I don't use or care about. I'll edit its id from the /etc/pcmcia/config file and see if I can get driveloader to install and use the windoze driver that came with it. praedor - -- "Our ship is in the hands of pilots who are steering directly under full sail for a rock. The whole crew may see this course to violate our liberties in full view if they look the right way." - --Samuel Adams, 1771 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/oDIfaKr9sJYeTxgRAoRyAJoCrP4vNO9PzlEa/4BIvIpePgfYcgCgrq0u IDMo13QQ2c9SlbJjnXPKnV8= =MvPI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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