Skribent: tommy mcdurmon Dato: Til: dynebolic mailinglist Emne: Re: [dyne:bolic] dyne:bolic 2.3 DHORUBA SOLID STATE
Thanks much everyone. I'll try all.
tom
Chris Greenman wrote: > Just to add to this. One issue I found with trying to
> run Dyne on my company laptop (IBM Thinkpad T41) was
> that the driver exists but the Wifi card (Intel Pro
> Wireless 2100) requires a firmware load and I think
> the firmware is proprietary. As such it is illegal to
> include it in the distro for licensing reasons. What
> I do is keep the firmware on the same USB drive as my
> nest and just "modprobe -r" the driver module, copy
> the firmware to it's correct location then "modprobe"
> the driver again. After that, the card shows up in
> the "Wireless" configuration tool where I can tell it
> my SSDI/WEP key.
> --- Dan Conklin <danconklin@???> wrote:
>
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>> It's because no one will pay the hardware
>> manufacturers enough money to open the source code
>> of their wireless chipsets' drivers.There are many,
>> many chipsets. However, there are a few which have
>> drivers that do exist, and work very well.One of
>> them is Atheros with the madwifi drivers. These are
>> the best IMHO, and give a wide range of
>> control.Another is anything that uses the Prism2 or
>> Prism52 drivers, but you need to look at the
>> hardware compatibility lists to find which they
>> are.Orinoco works well too, but I think you need to
>> buy an older card.Some of the Broadcom sets work
>> with the latest kernels, but you may still need
>> Ndiswrapper. Ndiwswrapper developers try their level
>> bestto keep up, but the manufacturers try their best
>> to keep ahead, so don't blame them.The answer will
>> come when people like you get very rich and give a
>> lot of money to open source development
>>
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