From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: kd4e Subject: Re: Take ACER Off your Linux-Friendly List Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:02:32 -0500 Message-ID: <4A711B58.2060605@kd4e.com> References: <4A710CCA.7000907@kd4e.com> <8ea83f40907291943v41f90ab3h9cea4f07c2ef0cb2@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: doc@kd4e.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <8ea83f40907291943v41f90ab3h9cea4f07c2ef0cb2@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Jeff Laughlin Cc: "Curt, WE7U" , Linux Hams , ChristianHams@yahoogroups.com, ham-computers , Ham-Linux Acer chooses with whom they sign contracts for sub-devices like wireless nics. If they had insisted on nics with Linux drivers they would have received them. Other companies have. I already own Linux-friendly b/g/n devices, so it is nothing bleeding-edge to do so. There are drivers out there for Atheros b/g/n nics but I don't have the time to chase them down and fuss with Alpha drivers - this laptop was to be a productivity tool - right now it's a defective piece of hardware. Since I told the salesman it was for Linux and was not warned it was non-Linux compatible they will get it back. Manufactures need to stop wasting the time of customers and give us what we want - in this economy customers are getting harder to find - and Linux use is growing like crazy. > Jeff Laughlin wrote: > Vendors don't hate Linux, they just don't like it enough. > > Usually wireless or other devices are unsupported by Linux because > 1. Vendor doesn't care > 2. Driver loads firmware or VHDL code or something at initialization > which the vendor has licensed from a 3rd party under restrictive terms > 3. Vendor intentionally locks out FOSS drivers because of silly FCC > rules about frequency agility > > It can be neigh on impossible to create clean room drivers based on > reverse engineering for stuff like that. > > Anyway, while Acer is complicit, they are really just a middle man. It's > really the device vendor that is ultimately to blame. -- Thanks! & 73, doc, KD4E FS/Swap/Wanted: http://kd4e.com/swapn.html Free OS : http://www.PuppyLinux.com Personal: http://kd4e.com |_|___|_| | | & | | /\ {| / \ {| / \ {| / @ \ {| | |~_|~~~~| | -| | | ============\ # KD4E Have an http://ultrafidian.com day!