PCI Wireless Network Card

[John]

adi zebic wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 04:52:04 +0800, John <summer at computerdatasafe.com.au> wrote:
>  
> 
>>Avoid TI and Broadcom. Avoid anything that requires ndiswrapper. 
> 
> 
> Why avoid Broadcom? Why avoid ndiswrapper?
> I have one Broadcom chipset based card that is 100% supported under
> linux (wep etc) with ndiswrapper. Can you explain?

Do you want Windows software in your Linux computer?

In principle, if a driver for which I have source is broken then I can 
fix it. Or I can file a bug report and my Linux vendor can fix it.

Any device which lacks a Linux driver is one to avoid buying. If you 
have one because you bought it for use with Windows, then by all means 
use ndiswrapper. I have no objection to ndiswrapper, just to the vendors 
whose hardware requires it.

There are vendors who use wireless chipsets from manufacturers who 
support Linux. Those are the products we should be supporting.

TI and Broadcom don't help us; let's not help them. I have a Powerbook 
17 (came with my job). If I want to run Linux on it and use wireless, I 
need to buy another card.


Mostly, when I email an OSS developer about a problem with his software 
I get a reply within hours. What's your experience with vendors of 
commercial software?