[oclug] wireless recomendations

[Adrian Irving-Beer]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 01:02:03AM -0400, Philippe Vachon wrote:

> However, recently development work on an open driver for the
> Atheros card was merged into someone's tree (see LKML for more
> info, I can't remember the exact post), and I think it "works" from
> reports I've heard.

Cool!  This is very good news.

> As an aside, I would encourage everyone to shun NDISwrapper. It just
> tells manufacturers that it is acceptable to not release
> specifications or drivers for Linux, because Linux users will just
> have to adapt to use the Windows drivers.


I know, I know.  I would love to, believe me -- ndiswrapper has had
some stability issues for me.  But *USB* 802.11g wireless is extremely
difficult without it.

I can't wait for the Prism54-USB development to get somewhere (using
the madwifi stack, I should add), because then it means I'm off
ndiswrapper -- I have not one, but two P54USB devices I could use.
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