BearItAll <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Hans Schneider wrote:
>
>> Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>>
>>> Progress on Linux Support for Contemporary Wi-Fi
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | ...a meeting last month in London, the Linux Wireless Summit,
>>> | apparently has helped move development along. DesktopLinux.com
>>> | reports that the meeting included Linux kernel developers, and
>>> | representatives from Broadcom, Devicescape, Intel, MontaVista,
>>> | and Nokia.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://wifinetnews.com/archives/007389.html
>>>
>>>
>>> Related:
>>>
>>> Free Linux Driver Development!
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | Yes, that's right, the Linux kernel community is offering all
>>> | companies free Linux driver development. No longer do you have
>>> | to suffer through all of the different examples in the Linux
>>> | Device Driver Kit, or pick through the thousands of example
>>> | drivers in the Linux kernel source tree trying to determine
>>> | which one is the closest to what you need to do.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.kroah.com/log/2007/01/29/#free_drivers
>>
>> Huh? I had thought that it "all just worked" and Linux supported more HW
>> than windows?!?!?! Hmm. Who is lying? You or the Linux developers? I am
>> thinking YOU are lying all the time about your Linux and how great it
>>
>
> Make it easy for you shall we.
Easier please since, Uh, you go on and talk a load of rubbish. Please be
rereading my post.
>
> I am Mr CleverCloggs and I have just created a new device. I would like as
> many people as possible to use my device, but I only have Ân.0 in the
> software budget, MS win programmers come cheap so I will pay for that,
> unfortunately Linux will have to wait.
>
> I would be very upset but I can't go out of budget. Oh! (look of joyfull
> surprise) The Linux community itself is willing to put the effort into the
> driver creation, all I have to do is provide them with enough information
> to access the device, which I already must have in the design notes and
> leave them to get on with it.
>
> That is what this is about, it is to help those who either can't get hold of
> the skills for driver development on UNIX/Linux or simply couldn't afford
> the development costs because they are a small developer. Linux benefits
> because it can now be first with drivers from big and small companies.
>
> Imagine, my new gadget gets put out to the shops and on the same day through
> their software sources every Linux user that they is has access to the
> drivers that will make my gadget sing and dance. That is a pretty good
> arrangement in my book.
I have no ideas what you are talking about. I am not saying it is a bad
thing. I am saying that posters said it "all worked" before and it is
seemingly not so true after all!
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