Comments on: Getting my wireless card working in Debian http://www.suramya.com/blog/2008/04/21/getting-my-wireless-card-working-in-debian/ Welcome to my crazy life... Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:48:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Bruno http://www.suramya.com/blog/2008/04/21/getting-my-wireless-card-working-in-debian/#comment-56243 Bruno Wed, 07 May 2008 10:29:09 +0000 http://www.suramya.com/blog/?p=690#comment-56243 I had the same issue with ubuntu gutsy and also in hardy. The driver in ubuntu just did not work. But when I compiled the kernel 2.6.25, the bcm43xx was recognized and now I'm able to connect through wireless device. I had the same issue with ubuntu gutsy and also in hardy. The driver in ubuntu just did not work. But when I compiled the kernel 2.6.25, the bcm43xx was recognized and now I’m able to connect through wireless device.

]]> By: Suramya http://www.suramya.com/blog/2008/04/21/getting-my-wireless-card-working-in-debian/#comment-54342 Suramya Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:47:17 +0000 http://www.suramya.com/blog/?p=690#comment-54342 You don't need Windows to install a linux driver. You need a windows driver to install some wireless cards in Linux. Unfortunately a lot of companies haven't released the specifications of their hardware so that a completely open driver can be created. So for those chip sets we have to use the windows driver on Linux. This is done by wrapping the driver with ndiswrapper. I too would like to use GPL products but sometimes getting things to work has a higher priority... - Suramya You don’t need Windows to install a linux driver. You need a windows driver to install some wireless cards in Linux.

Unfortunately a lot of companies haven’t released the specifications of their hardware so that a completely open driver can be created. So for those chip sets we have to use the windows driver on Linux. This is done by wrapping the driver with ndiswrapper.

I too would like to use GPL products but sometimes getting things to work has a higher priority…

- Suramya

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.suramya.com/blog/2008/04/21/getting-my-wireless-card-working-in-debian/#comment-54339 Anonymous Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:26:57 +0000 http://www.suramya.com/blog/?p=690#comment-54339 I dont understand : why do we need Windows to install a linux driver ? There are no way to do it with linux only ? I prefer to use open source code and gpl even more ! Thanks for your help. I dont understand : why do we need Windows to install a linux driver ?
There are no way to do it with linux only ?
I prefer to use open source code and gpl even more !
Thanks for your help.

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