Re: NetworkManager, WPA and non-wext drivers

[Darren Albers <dalbers gmail com>]

Dan Williams wrote:
> Yeah, and at some point I'm going to stop caring about bugs people have
> when using these drivers with distros...  either driver writers get with
> the program, or they won't get their drivers to Just Work.  I think all
> the major drivers are WE-18 and later compliant already, the drivers
> that don't aren't upstream in the kernel, and they won't get there until
> they _do_ have full WE-18 support.
>
> Dan
>   
I think you are right and the driver issue isn't one that you should be 
solving.  Personally when I purchased my last laptop I made sure that 
all the hardware had the appropriate open linux drivers but I do feel 
bad for those people who are new to linux and have a laptop with a card 
that isn't supported.   A couple of months ago there were 10 "Why 
doesn't my card work" questions a week so either the drivers are getting 
better or people have learned to search the archives ;-).  I am an 
optimist so I vote for the drivers getting better!