From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932098AbVHHR5N (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Aug 2005 13:57:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932160AbVHHR5N (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Aug 2005 13:57:13 -0400 Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.4]:18851 "HELO viper.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932098AbVHHR5L (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Aug 2005 13:57:11 -0400 Subject: Re: Wireless support From: Lee Revell To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <392810000.1123480234@[10.10.2.4]> References: <1123442554.12766.17.camel@mindpipe> <1123444566.12766.23.camel@mindpipe> <392810000.1123480234@[10.10.2.4]> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 13:57:09 -0400 Message-Id: <1123523830.15269.25.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 22:50 -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > It doesn't actually say it works on Linux. Perhaps you wanted > mysticgooglepsychic.com? ;-) > > I don't think it is reasonable to expect google to know what ndiswrapper > is ... or perhaps it just has a taste filter installed? ;-) True, I also found that a large reason for the difficulty of googling for Linux driver support info is that many projects that start as out of tree drivers or reverse engineering efforts don't update their web sites when the project ends with the driver being merged into the kernel (like prism54.org). So the web site still shows an incomplete list of supported hardware leading users to think their newer hardware is unsupported while in fact it probably works OOTB. Of course it's easiest to just try it but I don't have the hardware on hand... Lee