Re: Announce: ndiswrapper

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>]

William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> 
>>>	Even better :
>>>		1) go to the Wireless LAN Howto
>>>		2) find a card are supported under Linux that suit your needs
>>>		3) buy this card
>>>	I don't see the point of giving our money to vendors that
>>>don't care about us when there are vendors making a real effort toward
>>>us.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:26:59PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
>>Unfortunately that leaves users without support for any recent wireless 
>>hardware.  It gets more and more difficult to even find Linux-supported 
>>wireless at Fry's and other retail locations...
> 
> 
> And what good would it be to have an entire driver subsystem populated
> by binary-only drivers? That's not part of Linux, that's "welcome to
> nvidia hell" for that subsystem too, and not just graphics cards.
> 
> I say we should go the precise opposite direction and take a hard line
> stance against binary drivers, lest we find there are none left we even
> have source to and are bombarded with unfixable bugreports.

Who brought binary drivers into this?  And when I have ever advocated 
binary drivers?

ndiswrapper has one use IMHO (which was pointed out me in this 
thread)... to assist in reverse engineering.

	Jeff