4k Stacks

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Nov 28 21:11:15 UTC 2005


Arjan van de Ven (arjan at fenrus.demon.nl) said: 
> >  I don't see any DLINK, 
> > LInksys, Netgear or Belkin wireless drivers listed
> 
> in linux the drivers support a chipset. you're mentioning marketing
> names of cards. These cards contain one of the chipsets that exist
> 
> * intel  (driver complete and integrated)

No one actually OEMs these (Linksys, Belkin, etc.), right?

> * ACX or something (driver gpl and working but not yet integrated)
> * broadcom (driver gpl but very much embrionic)
> * "madwifi" cards, driver still in progress
> 
> broadcom is very common..

There's also USB, which is an entirely different set of
chipsets and drivers (which I really don't know the extent
of what's out there.)

Bill




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