More wireless drivers

[Roger Oberholtzer]

The Linmodem people have extended their wares into wireless.

They now support loading NDIC-compliant WinXP device drivers on Linux.
I just tried the XP drivers that came with my D-Link wireless PCI card and
it seems to work. At least as well as the open source driver. The open
source driver, however, was known to loose the connection occasionally. I am
wanting to see if this solution is better.

If you have a laptop with wireless hardware just sitting there unused, check
out:

	http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/

They say it is free. But I had to download a 30 day free license key to get
the driver to load. I did not see a price. Elsewhere on the site they said
they want it to remain free to end users. But that will only happen if the
hardware vendors support their work. They claim to be trying to get that set
up. Still, a winmodem driver is $15, so maybe this will be manageable. It is
just that I have already had to pay for drivers for this card...

All this sounds like Novell's transmogrifried network drivers a few years
back. They had a program called transmogrifry (thank you Calvin) that did
the same thing to make UnixWare drivers. The result was a fully functional
EFL loadable device driver, just like a native one. I did not 'really' like
the idea then, and I have reservations now. But, it seems intel 'may' be
releasing Linux drivers for their wireless stuff by the end of this year. At
least the talk says so.

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