Please suggest a fedora core 4 compatible wireless card
Michael A. Peters
mpeters at mac.com
Sat Nov 26 05:30:28 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 19:08 -0500, Temlakos wrote:
>
> And I agree with you: the fault for the chronic WiFi problems lies with
> manufacturers who won't cooperate with the open-source movement.
In some cases - it is the FCC that may actually be at fault.
The FCC has regulations on what devices can be user configurable - with
respect to how much power can be sent to the antenna.
Some cards control that via a chip, but that's more expensive than via
software/firmware. But because of the FCC regulation, such
software/firmware has to be closed to the user.
This is why some cards have non open firmware that has to be used, and I
believe it is also why madwifi uses a closed source HAL (rest of madwifi
is open source).
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