On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Meir Kriheli wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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. > > > > behdad > > 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 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
