5 Sep
2012
5 Sep
'12
8:59 p.m.
On Wed, September 5, 2012 9:53 am, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 10:18:46AM -0700, Len Ovens
wrote:
The last three NICs I bought had a Linux directory on the cd/floppy with
kernel drivers for the card. I suspect the card manufactures did not
create the drivers but just lifted them from the work already done for
free, but it was there. I did not have to use those drivers though as the
system I had just worked with the kernel I had. I can't say who did the
actual work or how... just that it seems NICs are no longer a problem...
perhaps networking is so important to computer work that there are more
FOSS devs willing to work on the drivers than there are for odd audio
devices.
--
Len Ovens
www.OvenWerks.net
It does happen. ethernet cards used to only come
with windows drivers...
then all of a sudden they started to come with Linux drivers... when is
the last time you found a NIC without Linux support?
Do they come with Linux drivers on CD with the card? My experience is
that the drivers are bundled with the kernel and someone has done a lot
of reverse engineering to get a functional FOSS driver.