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Linux's Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Back in the day it just worked because you bought a card with a supported chip.... or you had to do some ungodly things with ndiswrapper to get the Windows driver loaded.

I think back then I was using wicd as well.

It's come a long way.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago

Omfg I remember ndiswrapper, how the fuck did that thing even work. Loading a windows driver on Linux???