Free Software Foundation probes Linksys

[Jonathan Hutchins]

Quoting david nicol <whatever at davidnicol.com>:

>> ... if Linksys can be persuaded to abide by
>> the terms of the GPL...the software
>> needed to make a free Linux-based access point 
>> becomes available."
 
> I wonder what part is missing currently.

>From what I understand it's difficult to get most of the drivers for the cards 
to run in Access Point mode under Linux; Open drivers for the 22Mb chipsets (TI 
ACX100) are not ready and the non-open drivers that were released then pulled 
by DLink aren't very stable (I've had to do full reinstalls three times); the 
drivers for the 56M chipsets are completely unavailable in Linux.

Most of the wireless cards that are supported in Linux are the odball high-end 
brand cards that cost three times what the average CompUSA card will cost and 
are hard to find anywhere but on-line.

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