Wireless Adapters for Linux

[Albert Graham]

Don't be fooled,

This company like most other companies that produce wireless 
chipsets/devices are touting false claims as far as the Linux (OS 
driver) aspect is concerned, these guys are only interested in selling 
to Windows users  and if Windows users "think" it works really well with 
Linux, they think it will work even better with Windows - Marketing Job 
done for yet another closed wireless company!

Also, there are no technical Datasheets for these products on the 
company's website (http://www.ubnt.com/) unless you consider fancy 
colour brochure with nice pictures a datasheet and some how write a 
driver from that :(

I'm afraid there's nothing new here, they may well have the best Linux 
wireless device + driver but they will not release it to the community.

Other companies, like Ratech don't do much better, unless you consider 
releasing a really crappy NDIS driver+binary firmware without technical 
details as "supporting  linux".

All we need is the bloody datasheets for the specific implementation if 
it deviates from what is already published, basically these companies 
are all the same and the only way to do it is reverse engineer (which I 
spent many years doing :) ) - in Europe.

Albert.


jim tate wrote:
> Check this out, a good thing for Laptop users that have a Mini-PCI 
> slot in their laptop
> A little on the expensive side , but as they say, beggers can't be 
> choosers.
>
> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7607606463.html
>