Martin Husemann wrote:

>On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 01:40:15AM -0500, Michael Hertrick wrote:
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>>Linuxant (http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader) has an intriguing way to 
>>solve the wireless card support issue... use an NDIS 
>>compatibility-wrapper to utilize vendor supplied win32 drivers.
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>This, of course, is completely useless. Why? See below:
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>cpu0 at mainbus0: SUNW,UltraSPARC-II @ 295.995 MHz, version 0 FPU
>cpu0: 32K instruction (32 b/l), 16K data (32 b/l), 2048K external (64 b/l)
>..
>nell0 at sbus0 slot 1 offset 0x0 vector 4 ipl 2 vector 7 ipl 2: rev 1
>pcmcia0 at nell0 socket 0
>pcmcia1 at nell0 socket 1
>wi0 at pcmcia1 function 0: Lucent Technologies, WaveLAN/IEEE, Version 01.01
>wi0: 802.11 address 00:02:2d:05:18:4c
>wi0: using Lucent Technologies, WaveLAN/IEEE
>wi0: Lucent Firmware: Station (8.10.1)
>wi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
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>and I guess the same argument holds for macppc notebooks (while there *are*
>ultra sparc notebooks in theory, their price is so absurd I doubt anyone ever
>bought one).
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>Martin
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Completely useless?  Seems to me that you're arguing it's useless for 
non-i386 ports, but I've got a feeling this argument may have gone right 
over my head. 

In the past 2 weeks I could have used something like this for my i386 
installations.  At least the store didn't charge me a restocking fee.


I'm going to relieve this pain in my neck, I hope, by taking David 
Young's advice and get cards with the Atheros chipset.  The more I read 
about it, the more it really does seem like the way to go.


~Mike.