[NCLUG] PCI Wireless (54G) cards for purchase in Fort Collins?

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Wed Sep 7 14:26:42 MDT 2005


Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 01:35:20PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> 
>>Does anybody know where I can get a wireless card that is:
>>...

It turns out that the Linksys card at the Fort Collins store (at least
as of week or so ago) has the RT2500 chipset, which has a native Linux
driver.

> First, I've gotta ask what you mean by "native driver".

Anything that doesn't run under ndiswrapper basically (ndiswrapper uses
drivers written for Windows, which is certainly not the Linux API, hence
the drivers are not "native" to Linux). This is pretty much the same
thing as saying Open Source, which is the real reason I can't use
ndiswrapper.

> Second, I must ask why you specifically want a "Linux native" driver.
> Is it only for convenience?

We're writing code to configure wireless cards, and query status,
directly rather than through iwconfig etc. Whilst debugging this, we
need to be able to find out why things don't work. Having closed-source
drivers makes this practically impossible.
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