Reverse Engineered 802.11b+ Drivers 272
orv writes "When Andreas Mohr found that his new wireless networking card wasn't supported under Linux rather than returning the card and getting himself a supported one, he decided to set up a project to write his own drivers instead - http://acx100.sourceforge.net.
Companies such as D-Link had initially promised to release linux drivers for these cards but later backed down from that promise and announced that Linux would not be supported and that customers should not hold on to the cards in the hope of getting them working, as shown on their current FAQ.
Texas Instruments, the makers of the chipsets upon which these 802.11b+ cards are based refused to release code or specifications for the cards, no doubt for similar reasons that were recently discussed here.
The fact that the current alpha release is certainly as good, and in some areas better, than the binary drivers that escaped from one of the card manufactureres speaks volumes for the quality and determination of the team to create their own drivers."
Wha? (Score:0, Funny)
Thanks.
Re:Wha? (Score:0, Funny)
Google is your friend. Try the following search terms.
"Reverse Engineering"
"802.11b"
"Device Driver"
Type and learn.
Linux Development Process (Score:3, Funny)
2. Write your own driver
3. ????
4. Still never get laid
Can't happen (Score:0, Funny)
They might have to worry about the DMCA though, because thats an actual law with the correct acronym and everything.
Google (Score:3, Funny)
http://www.google.com/
Now, you make sure you put the slashes in the right way ok?
Re:Wha? (Score:2, Funny)
Biped does not imply human. Care to qualify that?
Re:Linux Development Process (Score:4, Funny)
I have to wonder if the annoyingly repetitive "not getting laid" jokes are made by people who themselves never get laid, and are hoping against hope that everybody else is in the same situation.
And what does this meta-not-getting-laid comment say about me? Maybe that I can't talk about it.
Re:DCMA Anyone? (Score:3, Funny)
If I were going for regexp, I'd just go "(RI|MP)AA". But most Windozies would parse that as "Rimpaa", which sounds more like Puumba's evil twin brother than anything.
Re:What could have happened - what will happen (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Don't buy unsupported hardware (Score:3, Funny)