On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Thursday 17 April 2008 16:07, Eben King wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Steve Litt wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> I use Linux on a laptop, and I don't use ndiswrapper, but I also don't plan
>> to upgrade to 2.6.25 merely because I can. So whatever they do or don't do
>> with it is of little concern to me, unless it sticks around until I _do_
>> upgrade.
>
> Let me venture a guess -- your laptop doesn't have a Broadcom wnic...
This is correct. I specified the components, and I specifically chose IPW
instead of Broadcom, precisely so I wouldn't have to emulate another OS to
get around a hobbled wireless card's lack of native drivers.
The downside is that I can't find onboard Bluetooth hardware, and I can't
believe I was short-sighted enough to skimp on it.
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Your pretended fear lest error might step in is like the man who
would keep all wine out of the country lest men should be drunk.
-- Oliver Cromwell
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