[GNUz] ndiswrapper - licences...

Don Gould gnuz@inode.co.nz
Mon, 10 Apr 2006 20:48:12 +1200


Is that a wifi card for under a tenna?

Steve Holdoway wrote:
> Which network cards were you using? Personally, I'd throw them as far as possible if they need this. New ones aren't very dear, and I'm sure you can get a decent old one, like a 3c509 for well under a tenner.
> 
> Steve
> 
> On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 20:01:54 +1200
> Don Gould <don@bowenvale.co.nz> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Following on from the general discussion on cc's open status.
>>
>>What are peoples views on ndiswrapper?
>>
>>Drivers are written by manufactures based on code from chip suppliers 
>>for xp os then used by ndis.
>>
>>Neil and I used ndis this afternoon to get new nics up and running with 
>>in minutes.  We didn't have to track down drivers for the chip sent.
>>
>>It got us functional but are we still floss?
>>
>>Personally I'm good with this as I wasn't being asked to pay money to a 
>>third party just to use my system.  Thou I guess the card manufacture 
>>did pay money to the chip manufactures.
>>
>>Thoughts welcomed.
>>
>>
>>Cheers Don
>>
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