[Prism54-devel] thank you!

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

I'd also just like to remind everyone that we've had good corporate
support. So far, you should also be thankful to:

* Intersil (now Conexant/Globespanvirata): providing the original
GPL Source
* I4: (http://www.i4.cz/) for providing developers with Wireless Cards

	Luis

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Jon Howell wrote:

> prism54 developers,
>
> A warm thank-you for building an open-source 802.11g driver.
>
> I bought a d-link card a couple days ago, and found that my choices were to
> load a windows NDIS binary (seems brittle) or use madwifi (seemed to have
> some sketchy IP issues; perhaps they're no worse than prism54's binary
> firmware, but I couldn't tell). So I returned it, looked around, found
> prism54.org, and selected the Netgear WG511 from your supported cards list.
>
> I run gentoo. I unpacked a 2.6.1 kernel (and spent a couple boot cycles
> fixing my config :v), and patched it with your patch. I worked my way
> through the readme: wow, it's a very thorough step-by-step that I could use
> to ensure I had each thing working before going onto the next thing. VERY
> helpful. At one point, I found out that /sbin/hotplug didn't have the
> firmware agent; a google search on "gentoo firmware agent" (or something
> similar) came across a post showing what was needed to fix that. And now, it
> just works.
>
> I really like it when software just works, and that's because you guys put
> so much effort into it. I'm also tickled that I can run an 802.11g card; I
> was worried for a while that linux support for 11g was just not there.
>
> Thanks! You guys rock.
>
>     --Jon
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