Re: [Madwifi-users] Article about Atheros chips in this week's Economist

[Alvin O. <alvin@Mail.Linux-Consulting.com>]

On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Chris Davies wrote:

> When I recently purchased a laptop, it took almost two weeks of research
> to find a notebook which supported 95% of what I needed.  While I have a

to me .. that is a good thing .. to research what you're buying,
instead of buy and figure out it doesnt work  :-)

> broadcom card in another machine running linuxant, that machine is
> perpetually stuck on an old kernel because every attempt to upgrade
> their driver or the kernel fails.

what happens when you use ndiswrapper with the latest wireless-tools 
and latest pcmcia tools ??
	- i don't believe in linuxant since its $$$ and closed

kernel issues usually goes away when you have source code to the drivers 

> Thank you everyone for your efforts.  Whether you hear it or not, your
> efforts are greatly appreciated.

ditto

c ya
alvin