On Tuesday 22 April 2008 20:20, Romano Giannetti wrote:
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> On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 11:44 -0400, Daniel Hazelton wrote:
> > Since the second-most-common reason for stack overages is ndiswrapper... Well, 
> > with there being so much more hardware now supported directly by the linux 
> > kernel... 
> 
> How would I like you being right... Atheros AR5008, AR5414 PHY, "not yet
> here". It's almost one year now since I bought this laptop, and till now
> it's the cable or ndiswrapper. But yes, it's going better. For my first
> wifi laptop I waited two and a half years, now it seems that in a bit
> more than one there will be an open source driver...
> 
> I know all the trouble ndiswrapper signify. But I see also that people
> around me with a laptop and linux use more ndiswrapper than a real
> driver, so... be gentle with it. 

Nobody knows how much potential development is not done because
"you can make your wifi work with ndiswrapper".
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