Loud ramblings of a Software Artisan

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Tuesday 2 August 2005 18:34, by mateuszb :: #

oh, well I am working on it... ;-) nice to see someone noticed! :)

best wishes
/mb

Wednesday 3 August 2005 11:04, by Chris Smith :: #

In a positive way, I feel the community should advertise and tout hardware with free drivers. I'd like to support disc/wireless/video vendors who have free drivers, but I have no idea who they are.
Best,
Chris

Thursday 4 August 2005 06:39, by mateuszb :: site :: #

I did not know too, unless I bought wireless card which was not supported
on linux :-) That's how it usually starts... ;)

Friday 5 August 2005 04:27, by sits :: #

Once you know the chipset it is generally "easy" to find out whether the driver is free or not. However finding the chipset is a nightmare even with great resources like www.linux-wlan.org/docs/w... . Manufacturers sometimes change chipsets without (dramatically) changing the model number on the box. An infamous example of this is the D-Link DWL-650.

Friday 5 August 2005 20:55, by mateuszb :: site :: #

Ha! very good point. That especially applies to hardware vendors which use atheros chipsets.

Thursday 23 February 2006 04:54, by Jim Thompson :: site :: #

its clear to anyone who can see both code bases that this driver is based on stolen code.

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