Re: Announce: ndiswrapper

[Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:30:47PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> >On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 01:05:34PM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> >
> >>On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 07:34:22PM -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>	Excuse me ? Have you looked at the Howto lately ? There is
> >>>only Broadcom and Intel which are not supported, which leaves plenty
> >>>of choice (including many 802.11g and 802.11a cards).
> >>
> >>And Realtek (I own one such card) and ADMtek (I bought one by accident
> >>in Canada) and Atheros and ... basically anything CardBus doesn't work.
> >
> >
> >	Wrong. There are wireless drivers for RealTek, ADMtek and
> >Atheros.
> >	I may repeat myself like a parrot, but "Have you looked at the
> >Howto lately ?". I think you exactly prove my point ;-)
> 
> 
> Last I checked, none of these were 100% open source.  I am certain this 
> is true for Atheros, but IIRC it's also the case for the other two?
> 
> Anyway, WRT RealTek, they gave me (and others) docs.  If I can locate a 
> card, I'll do a driver (or merge an existing one, if any).  RealTek's 
> been pretty supportive of open source in the past, what with 
> 8139too/8139cp/r8169 stuff.

If you want, I will send you one. The Edimax EW-7106PC is a Realtek based card.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR