Wireles

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Sat Sep 30 00:30:22 UTC 2006


On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 12:59:37AM +0200, David Nielsen wrote:
 > fre, 29 09 2006 kl. 15:46 -0700, skrev Frank S.:
 > > If you are not including drivers for D-link or Realtek or other
 > > Wireless cards then You should include Ndiswrap for many people
 > > wireless is the only choice (available at the moment of
 > > installation )to connect to the Internet many people do not have a
 > > dial-up account. 
 > 
 > ndiswrapper is shipped via livna.org, this likely means there are legal
 > issues with shipping it but it is available if you need it.
 
There's also several good technical arguments against it.
For one it makes diagnosing kernel crashes close to impossible.
Running binary-only code (from another OS even) in ring 0 just
isn't a good idea.

	Dave




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