kerneltrap.org— "Following Andrew Morton interview's overview of what will likely be merged into the 2.6.18 kernel story, several developers discussed the legality of the ACX1xx wireless driver."
Jun 12, 2006View in Crawl 4
This is only one of the issues regarding wireless drivers on Linux. I'm glad to see this getting addressed, however some wireless drivers are useless without the firmware. Although some distros will include firmware, the legality of redistributing it is questionable.
Well, why not run applications compiled for PowerPC on the new Intel Macs through the Rosetta emulation layer?It's a bad idea because native is always better, same goes for Linux drivers.Also, in almost all cases, the Windows drivers are not freely redistributeable, so the distributions can't set it up out of the box for you.
If you used Gentoo, recompiling your kernel and all the modules would be as simple as "make && emerge nvidia-kernel rlocate shfs acx". Besides, you could just wait for the code to get included into the mainstream kernel before upgrading if you really can't stand the extra compile time.
It is the overview of Andrew morton's interview.like saying... The interview's length...which would be the length of the interview.I agree that it could've been worded better. He could've left out _overview_ altogether.
cptnobviousJun 13, 2006
they need to merge the rt2500 drivers into the kernel now that it supports SMP, I would like my Linksys WMP54G to work out of the box ;-)
lyzzJun 13, 2006
This is only one of the issues regarding wireless drivers on Linux. I'm glad to see this getting addressed, however some wireless drivers are useless without the firmware. Although some distros will include firmware, the legality of redistributing it is questionable.
tsuroerusuJun 13, 2006
Well, why not run applications compiled for PowerPC on the new Intel Macs through the Rosetta emulation layer?It's a bad idea because native is always better, same goes for Linux drivers.Also, in almost all cases, the Windows drivers are not freely redistributeable, so the distributions can't set it up out of the box for you.
pcoolJun 14, 2006
as a linux newbie it is indeed very hard to get wifi working.This would make it hopefully a lot easier
covracerJun 20, 2006
If you used Gentoo, recompiling your kernel and all the modules would be as simple as "make && emerge nvidia-kernel rlocate shfs acx". Besides, you could just wait for the code to get included into the mainstream kernel before upgrading if you really can't stand the extra compile time.
circlefusionJul 8, 2006
It is the overview of Andrew morton's interview.like saying... The interview's length...which would be the length of the interview.I agree that it could've been worded better. He could've left out _overview_ altogether.