Subject: Re: Wireless Networking on BSD
To: None <tech-net@NetBSD.org>
From: Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh@jodi.nimenees.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 12/04/2003 14:04:19
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 01:39:47PM -0600, David Young wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 10:21:37AM -0600, Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 10:33:19PM -0600, David Young wrote:
> > > Certainly it is a good thing if you only strive to connect your x86
> > > laptop to an AP using any old wireless card.
> > > * one of the goals of the NetBSD system is portability, and there
> > >   are not Win32 NDIS drivers for MIPS, Alpha, PowerPC, or Sparc (as
> > >   Martin mentioned)
> > 	while it's certainly better to have a solution that works for more
> > than just x86 machines it sucks to obstruct the possiblity of getting
> > those x86 machines working with the hardware.
> 
> Eric, who the hell is obstructing the possibility of getting x86 machines
> working? I say that it is a "good thing" for x86 machines. You are
> dismantling a strawman.
	oh, well then, we're in agreement.  It just seemed that your list of
problem with using NDIS drivers was implying that the code shouldn't
be added at all.

> Thanks for volunteering.
	uh, yeah. :)  I didn't pay much attention to the beginnings of the thread
and assumed someone had some code already.

eric