[was (no subject)] Wireless in F11

[Brian Mearns]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Timothy Murphy<gayleard at eircom.net> wrote:
> Brian Mearns wrote:
>
>> In my experience, Linux is still somewhat immature in the wireless
>> area, but does seem to be catching up rapidly (this is obviously a
>> pretty high demand area). As with most linux-hardware issues, the real
>> problem is vendor support for the Linux kernel.
>
> That does not seem to me to be relevant
> unless you intend to use vendor-supplied drivers.
> In my experience this is bound to cause problems sooner or later,
> unless you have decided you will never update your system.
>
>
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> Timothy Murphy
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I didn't specifically mean vendor-supplied drivers, I meant vendor
support of the Linux community so that proper drivers can be written.
Like HP, for instance, has a pretty good connection to the Linux/Unix
community and has apparently been pretty forthcoming with information
in support of linux drivers for HP printers. But, as far as I know,
the drivers are not actually written by HP.

-Brian

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