[Gllug] 32-bit CardBus in laptop

[Ian Norton]

On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 10:04:04PM +0100, Mike Brodbelt wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 17:43 +0100, Ian Norton wrote:
> 
> > there arent alot of free-software linux drivers for 802.11g cards, do you know
> > what make the card is?
> 
> Hmmm - as far as I'm aware, there are absolutely zero free software
> linux drivers for 802.11g hardware. 
> 
> > if it helps, my proxim orinoco silver 802.11a/b/g card uses the madwifi driver.
> 
> That one still taints the kernel, and it doesn't work at all in ad-hoc
> mode (as I found out the hard way). Kind of embarrassing that OpenBSD
> can get good free support for some 802.11g hardware, and linux has
> tainted stuff that doesn't actually work properly....

I remember recently someone saying that there was some porting goin on from the
bsd drivers. 

Ian

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