Re: Announce: ndiswrapper

[Jan De Luyck <lkml@kcore.org>]

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On Friday 21 November 2003 01:00, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 04:53:12PM -0700, Mudama, Eric wrote:
> > I think the point being made is "Why spend an extra $150 on a PCMCIA wifi
> > card when there's an integrated wifi device already in the laptop that
> > ndiswrapper will allow to sortof work?"
> >
> > The person who bought this laptop and wants to run linux on it might not
> > have the extra money handy to use buying additional hardware.
> >
> > Not my point of view, but definitely "a" point of view.
> >
> > --eric
>
> 	My point is : why buy this laptop if it's not 100%
> supported ? They are plenty of other laptops...
> 	I can guarantee you that I'm more picky and more cheap than
> anyone when choosing laptops, and I always get something 100%
> supported.

I, too, am the owner of a 'centrino' laptop, which comes with the intel Pro/
wireless 2100 card. At the time I bought it, Intel said that they would be 
providing linux support for centrino, and since they made good on their 
claims in the past, I went ahead and bought it. Unfortunately, until now, 
they haven't substansiated that claim yet. And, I'm not really willing to 
cough up another 150-200 EUR for another minipci card, which - in some cases 
- - even has to be of a specific type to work with the bios of the system!

So, driverloader or ndiswrapper provides me with a workable solution, even 
though it's not really the way I like it. But it works. That's what counts 
for the majority of the 'desktop/laptop' linux users. They don't care how it 
happens, as long as it happens.

Personally I'm only half in that camp, since I like to use opensource & free 
drivers/software if available, and will advocate the use of such software. If 
no decent os substitutes are available, I'll use proprietary/binary only 
stuff nevertheless.

Jan
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