Re: Wireless support

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Tuesday, 9 of August 2005 15:52, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> On Aug 9, 2005, at 05:09:55, Jochen Friedrich wrote:
> > Third, both ndiswrapper and binary-only drivers only work on one  
> > platform.
> >
> > E.g. broadcom has a binary-only driver for their WLAN card on  
> > Linux, but
> > only for mipsel (wrt54g).
> >
> > On Alpha or PowerPC, most WLAN equipment doesn't work under Linux,  
> > at all.
> 
> Definitely.  I want my Airport Extreme to work!  Many users of the  
> BCM4301 chip can get it to work (kinda) with Linux via ndiswrapper,
> but that means they are much less likely to participate in any kind of
> reverse engineering effort,

Do you know of anyone actually doing it?

Rafael


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