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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