Out of the box USB wireless support

[jdong]

Matthew Garrett Wrote: 
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:01:23AM +0200, Robert McGraw wrote:

> > With a fresh install of Breezy and my Linksys WUSB54 card, I've just

> > had to manually install ndiswrapper and sort out it's dependancies

> > (which is a bit of a pain on a non-networked machine) so I was just

> > wondering, why isn't this included out of the box? Are there any
> plans

> > to do such a thing? I've heard mention of the madwifi drivers being

> > included somewhere. Any clarification of this would be greatly

> > appreciated. Regards -- Thom

> 

> We support devices that have open Linux drivers out of the box. 

> ndiswrapper is included in the default kernels so there shouldn't be
> any 

> nasty dependency issues. However, we can't ship Windows drivers 

> ourselves.

> 

> madwifi is included by default, but as far as I know doesn't include
> USB 

> support yet.

> 

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You are correct in stating madwifi  doesn't support USB Atheros devices
-- these have a completely different hardware architecture, and would
require a massive rewrite of the madwifi driver.





Plus, I do not believe the WUSB54 is madwifi. There have been prism54
and rt2570 revisions of this card, both of which have Open Source
drivers (of differing stability levels)


-- 
jdong