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LinuxAnt's DriverLoader Loads Centrino Drivers

Posted by timothy on from the look-ma dept.

cRueLio writes "The latest release of Linuxant's DriverLoader can now load Centrino drivers. This is very useful, because Intel has been resisting the release of Linux Centrino drivers. For those of you who don't know, DriverLoader is practically a wrapper for Windows wireless drivers."

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  1. Free?...or not? by Scalli0n · · Score: 5, Interesting

    DriverLoader packages can be downloaded from Linuxant's web site at no cost*.

    * Linuxant is happy to provide free trial DriverLoader licenses, while discussions are under way with hardware vendors to finance development costs. Linuxant hopes that DriverLoader will remain free for end-users.

    Interesting. I'd hope that they get some money so that we can keep enjoying this, but at the same time, the words 'trial' and 'licenses' worry me a little. Been spending too much time GNU!

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  2. Wonderful. by base3 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Now hardware vendors can blow off developing drivers for Linux. "Just download the wrapper and use the Win32 driver."

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  3. Re:why by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In addition to which you have to remember that it is impossible to realease up to date binary drivers for linux without having to constantly maintain 100 different versions for all the different kernel builds by Redhat/Suse/Mandrake/etc (forget about gentoo, slack or custom kernels). The only way hardware manufacturers could get out of that pain is by releasing the source for their drivers which many are hesitant to do. The module versioning issue is really a pain compared to say windows where a vendor can release drivers that he knows will pretty much work across multiple versions of windows. I think this has got to be holding driver development for linux back.