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Current Newswire: IE8 vs. Firefox: Four Things Firefox Could Learn from IE VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 3.1.x On A Headless Fedora 12 Server Resuming interrupted sftp transfers in Linux Set up Xen 3.4.3 Dom0 via xenified 2.6.31.12 kernel on top of Ubuntu 9.10 Server Comcast CEO defends NBC deal, unsure on Hulu Installing software in Ubuntu Android vs. iPhone: Google Hires Tim Bray DNSSEC Moving Ahead at .Org and ICANN Turbocharge OpenOffice.org Writer with AuthorSupportTool Get the Most Out of Your Open-Source Software With Redirection in Bash Financial Application Engineer (IL) Next Step Systems US-IL-Chicago Post A Job | Post A Resume NDISwrapper and the GPL Mar 4, 2008, 23 :30 UTC (2 Talkback[s]) (3569 reads) "'A change after 2.6.24 broke ndiswrapper by accidentally removing its access to GPL-only symbols,' noted Pavel Roskin, offering a patch to address the issue. Linux creator Linus Torvalds was unimpressed, ;I'm not seeing why ndiswrapper should be treated separately. If it loads non-GPL modules, it shouldn't be able to use GPLONLY symbols.' The NDISwrapper project page explains, 'many vendors do not release specifications of the hardware or provide a Linux driver for their wireless network cards. This project implements Windows kernel API and NDIS (Network Driver Interface Specification) API within Linux kernel. A Windows driver for wireless network card is then linked to this implementation so that the driver runs natively, as though it is in Windows, without binary emulation...'" Complete Story Related Stories: Andrew Morton: Linux 2.6.19-rc4-mm1(Oct 31, 2006) Linus Torvalds: Linux 2.6.19-rc4(Oct 31, 2006) Andrew Morton: Linux 2.6.19-rc3-mm1(Oct 30, 2006) Index Mode   |   Flat Mode   |   Thread Mode   |   Thread Flat     Talkback(s) Name  and Date   All's well that ends well    Yim Mar 5, 2008, 07:27:27     Re: All's well that ends well    blackhole Mar 5, 2008, 13:38:08     Home | Search Talkbacks | Customize View    Top of Page   Enter your comments below: * Your Name: * Your Email Address: * Subject: CC: [will also send this talkback to an E-Mail address] * Comments: Tags allowed:<I>,<B> and <U>. See our talkback-policy for more about talkback content. Fields marked with * are required!

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