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NDIS Wrapper For Wireless LAN Cards Under GPL

Posted by timothy on from the subvert-the-cooption-and-vice-versa dept.

An anonymous reader writes " Shortly after Linuxant has released their commercial DriverLoader, Pontus Fuchs has made an NDIS wrapper available under the GPL. Since some vendors refuse to release specifications or even a binary Linux-driver for their Wireless LAN cards he has decided to solve it himself by making a kernel module that can load Microsoft-Windows NDIS drivers. ndiswrapper has been tested with some BroadCom miniPCI cards and it seems to work on some laptops . With some more work it should be possible to support more cards. Hopefully this will be the case for the many owners of Linux laptops based on Intel's Centrino technology. Please contact Pontus if you are interested in helping out!"

13 of 222 comments (clear)

  1. Hi, room! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hi, All! a/s/l?

  2. First Post! :) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Seriously, this is great news.

  3. Firstus Postus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    PLEASE!!!! LET ME WIN!!!!!! DON'T BE A FAILURE!!!!!!!
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    *dies*
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  4. are you calling me an asl? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  5. omg im so cool! i post on slashdot! by .silG.00 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    we just chillin at the holidae inn!

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  6. Lube issued by Army costing lives in Iraq by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Lube Issued by Army May be Costing Lives in Iraq...

  7. Helping (Out is useless): +1 , Patriotic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    Fire the
    Liars

    Thanks and have a John_Ashcroft_free day,
    Kilgore Trout

  8. Pontus Fuchs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Pontus Fuchs

    Well now that I know that, I might consider asking him out.

  9. Re:How by tommck · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Call MTV and ask for that guy from Jackass with the American flag Speedo on...

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  10. Why does Michael Jackson wear that glove? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...so he doesn't leave fingerprints on the kid

  11. What's the best laptop for running Linux? by user555 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm in the market for a laptop and plan to use Linux as my primary OS.

    I'd like to avoid incompatiblity headaches and want something that I could install Linux on easily and have everything just work.

    Something with an integrated wireless card that worked out of the box would be great as well.

    Anyone have anyone have any recommendations?

  12. Re:What, no screen shots?? by Emil+Brink · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Nice sig! :) ;^)

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  13. Re:What, no screen shots?? by rvaniwaa · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ditto! I may have to steal your idea of using 'O' for a variable. Nice how it confuses with '0'.

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