On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 04:22 -0500, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 10:12 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 10:02 +0100, dragoran wrote:
> > and having it in rawhide would help it.
> > native wlan drivers are rare and having more off them won't hurt (no
> > ndiswrapper etc.) ;)
>
> they're not THAT rare; there's drivers as well for the atheros chips,
> for the rx chips etc etc. I'm the first to say that that work needs
> applauding and support. But why do only one and not all?
For the most part they (madwifi etc.)
I don't count madwifi since it's not open source. I'm talking about the
reverse engineered driver instead.
already work. The BC43xx driver is
another matter. And it's getting easier and easier to find a laptop that
has a BC43xx chip, so having the driver work is a *huge* help.
Atheros is also very popular.