On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Meir Kriheli wrote:

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> On Wednesday 31 December 2003 06:24, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > Thanks for both replies.  I'm gonna ask the vendor, but I'm going
> > to get another card, an atheros chipset this time.
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> > behdad
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> I would appreciate if you'll report back on which card you've selected, and
> your experience with it. I'm looking for a 802.11g card, and prefer a
> supported (libre) one.

Sure I would do.

My surfing has has shown that you cannot use any 802.11g card
without tainting your kernel.  The leading projects are madwifi,
linux-wlan-ng, and ndiswrapper which are free and linuxant.
Some of them provide wrappers around the Windows driver.  The
others have a binary only core.  The reason not providing sources
for the binary core is some American standards that prevent you
from publishing code that can program a radio device on arbitrary
frequencies and powers...

behdad

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