From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262650AbVAEUau (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2005 15:30:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262653AbVAEUat (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2005 15:30:49 -0500 Received: from rivendell.nexusuk.org ([84.92.27.250]:21635 "EHLO rivendell.nexusuk.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262650AbVAEU2u (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2005 15:28:50 -0500 Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 20:22:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Steve Hill To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" cc: prism54-devel@prism54.org, prism54-users@prism54.org, Netdev , Jean Tourrilhes , Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Prism54-users] Open hardware wireless cards In-Reply-To: <20050105200526.GL5159@ruslug.rutgers.edu> Message-ID: References: <20050105200526.GL5159@ruslug.rutgers.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > What I think we probably will have to do is just work torwards seeing if > we can come up with our own open wireless hardware. I know there was > a recent thread on lkml about an open video card -- anyone know where > that ended up? This may be a silly point, but there *was* good 802.11g hardware available which worked well with the fully open drivers. I presume the manufacturers are moving to the "softmac" design instead because (for them) it is cheaper. However, the point is that the working designs are already there and it may be that buying the existing design which is being phased out is cheaper for the FOSS community than developing a whole new open device. Maybe it would be possible to convince one of the manufacturers that it's worth their while producing the older design hardware - if there is a single manufacturer who is making more or less the only hardware that is guaranteed to work under Linux there is probably quite a market for them. - Steve Jabber: steve@nexusuk.org Web: http://www.nexusuk.org/ Servatis a periculum, servatis a maleficum - Whisper, Evanescence -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public key available at http://www.nexusuk.org/pubkey.txt iD8DBQFB3Ex15zUOsIV3bqERAuInAKCGVS1kzaR4En2nQnKhDPv6TptZ+QCdEzFN y8HbDEpnxvJql8AVpDePcnA= =NfEa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----