spinynorman Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 So what's going to be different? A brand-new wireless LAN (WLAN) kernel stack, which is going to reduce the current WLAN herd-of-cats approach to a single unified subsystem that supports all wireless drivers. Read about it at EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 That sounds great. Wireless has certainly been a big problem for me in Linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonEberger Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 Yeah...I'll be glad to see a more standard/solid wifi approach for Linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 Rated "Best News Of The Year" ;) Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misfitpierce Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 I certainly hope so, I wish all distros were built like mandriva with easy to use interface to ndiswrapper etc b/c wireless on other distros has been confusing... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 Nice to hear, although both the wifi adaptors I have here (Intel i945 on my daughters lappy and one Asus WL-167g USB stick (Ralink rt73 based) work right out of the box with all modern distros. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 I wish all distros were built like mandriva with easy to use interface to ndiswrapper I hope this is the beginning of the end of our dependency of using ndiswrapper with windows drivers... I'm not being sarcastic. :) This is very good news to all Linux users! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 I'm definitely with you there Greg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted April 20, 2007 Report Share Posted April 20, 2007 This is going to take a long time, and even if this came in tommorow, many of our problems wouldnt be fixed, as the main issues now are: - driver maturity - userspace applications both of which are improving gradually with time. NetworkManager has been great for the gui heavy distros out there. James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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