On Thursday 17 April 2008 15:18, John Pugh wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 2:26 PM, in message
>
> <200804171426.24906.slitt@troubleshooters.com>, Steve Litt
>
> <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday 17 April 2008 13:19, tom smith wrote:
> >> http://www.kernel.org/
> >
> > Is that the one where they crippled ndiswrapper? What a stupid decision
> > that is!
>
> Well...there was a patch which inadvertently screwed NDISwrapper up and a
> nice little argument about fixing the patch so Linus disabled access to
> symbols it needed to work. I think that the NDISwrapper folks implemented a
> workaround in their latest release, but NDISwrapper is currently hobbled.
Is there any reasonable way to work around the current no-ndiswrapper symbols?
So much for Linux on laptops. A real piece of strategic thinking by Linus. But
hey, we're 100% free software, even if nobody uses it (on a laptop).
Those guys whining about the GPL impurity of binary interfaces should be put
in a sweatshop and made to reverse engineer every new wnic that comes out,
and code a totally free driver for it within a week of its release.
SteveT
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