Why Eee?

[Dave Germiquet]

Well with EEE ndiswrapper works with Ubuntu. :) ...I got it working
and surprising wasn't too hard.


On Dec 22, 2007 3:10 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> | From: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org>
>
> | Wireless is apparently atheros AR5007EG, which is not currently
> | supported by linux.  Apparently someone is working on adding support to
> | the madwifi atheros HAL for it, but that could take a while, and my
> | experience with the atheros HAL has not been anything I would want to do
> | again, so I would consider it a laptop with no wifi at all if you are
> | running linux.
>
> HAL is not open source.  As far as I know, only Sam Leffler can fix
> it.  He doesn't seem to do that very much.
>
> OpenHAL is a replacement that is intended to be a an open source
> replacement.  Perhaps that is what you are thinking of.
>
> One alternative is ndiswrapper.  Not great, but it works in many
> cases.  Warning: this approach probably will not work with Fedora
> because the kernel stack size limitations.
> http://lwn.net/Articles/160138/
>
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