[LINK] Eric Raymond on OSS UIs

[Michael Still]

Saliya Wimalaratne wrote:

> I recently bought a Dell; and the internal WLAN card had no support, despite
> promises for more than 4 months from Intel of Linux drivers. 

Intel announced the alpha version of the driver late last week.

> Downloaded the relevant software, installed, then installed the Windows
> WLAN drivers. No more problems. Not really worth it for an organisation
> (at $US20 RRP it's not cheap)... but until Intel pulls their finger out
> it's an option for a single end-user. 

http://ndiswrapper.sf.net -- an open source NDIS wrapper just like 
linuxant. It just works on my Dell Latitude D400, I'm writing this using 
it now.

Cheers,
Mikal

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