-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 31 December 2003 09:55, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > 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
10x for the info. This situation sucks. I think I'll go with 802.11b instead :-( - -- Meir Kriheli MKsoft systems http://www.mksoft.co.il -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/8uQARkS5DWK1mZkRAoIxAJ9GfeBjao4gAc9lJwJNaqU7173dcACfVEb6 Ucyu5alBvblD4ZKS6y7PZsI= =V16L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ================================================================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]
