Re: Wake Up World! Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss

[Matthew Saltzman <mjs clemson edu>]

On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 14:42 -0700, Jacob Oursland wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 15:16 -0500, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
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> > Christophe Fergeau wrote:
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> > I can't see how this could possibly help me to get WPA working
> > correctly. Are you saying that Israel is the problem?
> 
> Well, that depends.  Several wireless chipsets have come out of Israel,
> but the Linux driver code isn't of satisfactory quality to be included
> in the mainline kernel.  Although, if you have a Intersil Prism 2.5/3
> USB chipset, there is good news: that driver has been accepted into the
> Staging drivers.
> 
> FYI: Staging drivers can be used by enabling them at the bottom of the
> Drivers config of the kernel and then de-selecting the disable staging
> drivers.
> 
> -Jake

It's bad enough that Mr. Fergau feels compelled to post such irrelevant
crap to this list in the first place, but MUST Y'ALL KEEP QUOTING IT?!?

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                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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