Tony, See my comments inline.
Thanks, Michael Tony Reeves ??: > On 5/16/07, Michael Li <Mikore.Li at sun.com> wrote: > >> Tony Reeves ??: >> >> >Michael Li wrote: >> > >> > >> >>Hi, all, >> >> >> >>I have a "report to work" for you again with latest ndiswrapper: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> >What is meant by "latest ndiswrapper"? The version on the open solaris >> >ndis page... >> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/ndis/ >> > >> >is still 0.1. >> >_______________________________________________ >> >laptop-discuss mailing list >> >laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org >> > >> > >> The latest ndiswrapper means version 1.1 alpha released for early access >> internally in Sun. Hopefully it can be available at OpenSolaris in >> several weeks. > > > So what is the point of notifying the community of hardware supported > by a non-existent driver (I consider software as non-existent if I > cannot see it)? Just want to info the potential users that the chipsets can be supported in a near future, the release will be available in not a long time. > > Further, why is the community not involved in the development of > ndis-wrapper, and why have the opensolaris pages not been updated to > reflect this work? I think we do need to involve more interested people to contribute to ndiswrapper project. If you think there is any parts need to be enhanced to the open source project, could you show your opinion here? It is this week, I begin to support more chipsets of broadcom, when those adapters are available to me. So, I can not update the page in time. > > Problem for me is that I recently dumped my broadcom based minipci > wifi card and paid good money for a supported card because there was > no indication of any progress on ndiswrapper etc.. Sorry, it is in middle of April, I submitted to this alias, but if you have already submitted the request here, we will give clear answer to you at first time. Thanks, Michael > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org
