Re: WiFi on alpha
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 07:58:55PM -0000, sacha@myxomop.com wrote:
> Can any one make a success reporn on plugging any wifi card in an
> alpha machine? Would like to do so, but there exist so many hardware
> types and drivers, large parts of them is not opensource, some need
> binary modules which may be platform dependant etc.
If you have a binary kernel module, you indeed have no recourse for getting
the device to work with alpha. But the vast majority of drivers are not
binary-only; many include binary-only firmware, but firmware is run on the
device not on the host processor, so this doesn't prevent the driver from
working on alpha.
I have no direct experience with wireless on alpha, because I have no reason
not to use the perfectly good wires already in place; but the vast majority
of wireless network devices should work under alpha just as well as they do
under other architectures.
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