Of the ballpark Ebay range $350-400 T40 and T41 models- which is best suited for Linux?
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On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 07:22:43AM -0600, Luke -Jr wrote:
On Tuesday 25 December 2007, Oren Beck wrote:
Of the ballpark Ebay range $350-400 T40 and T41 models- which is best suited for Linux?
Be careful, some of these have Atheros WiFi
My wife's laptop has Atheros WiFi. What's wrong with it?
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Of the ballpark Ebay range $350-400 T40 and T41 models- which is best suited for Linux?
Be careful, some of these have Atheros WiFi
My wife's laptop has Atheros WiFi. What's wrong with it?
Traditionally has poor Linux support.
The key to the word "traditionally" is that it refers to a relatively long period, historically speaking. (The phrase "new tradition" is oxymoronic beyond description.)
Perhaps that "tradition" has been altered by Atheros' cooperation with the FOSS community http://www.atheros.com/news/linux.html:
*SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 23, 2003*—Atheros Communications, the leading developer and market share leader in advanced wireless LAN (WLAN) chipsets, today announced that the first open source Linux and FreeBSD software drivers for 802.11b/g and universal 802.11a/b/g products are now available as a free download from the Internet.
That's about how old Monsterette 1.2 is; it's hard to describe anything she does "traditionally".
On Dec 26, 2007 3:19 PM, Mark Gardner markgard@gmail.com wrote:
My wife's laptop has Atheros WiFi. What's wrong with it?
Traditionally has poor Linux support.
My Atheros-based Netgear 511T has traditionally worked with madwifi for a long time, say since 2004. I bought it because I knew it worked with Linux. I have heard time and again KCLUG members talking about Orinoco cards being great. Problem is that you can't find them or you can't get them for less than $100. The Netgear came in at ~$40. Brian
On Dec 26, 2007 3:19 PM, Mark Gardner markgard@gmail.com wrote:
My wife's laptop has Atheros WiFi. What's wrong with it?
Traditionally has poor Linux support.
On Wednesday 26 December 2007, Monty J. Harder wrote:
The key to the word "traditionally" is that it refers to a relatively long period, historically speaking. (The phrase "new tradition" is oxymoronic beyond description.) Perhaps that "tradition" has been altered by Atheros' cooperation with the FOSS community
Maybe someday, but not quite cooperation. It's in fact moreso OpenBSD hackers doing reverse engineering. Anything from 2003 has to be referring to madwifi, which is no more open source than nVidia's drivers.
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