[Gllug] Madwifi drivers

Mike Brodbelt mike at coruscant.demon.co.uk
Tue Apr 12 23:01:08 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 22:59 +0100, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> Why not just buy wifi cards that have a GPL driver?

The card came built into the laptop. IBM have the unfortunate habit of
sticking an "allow list" into the BIOS (have a look at
http://www.paul.sladen.org/thinkpad-r31/wifi-card-pci-ids.html) for
details. There don't seem to be any fully GPL'd drivers for 802.11g
cards anyway - the Atheros seems to be as close as you get.

Mike.

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