Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 21st Dec 2006 08:29 UTC, submitted by Valour
BSD and Linux programmers have had a lot of success in creating drivers for new computer hardware in a timely manner, but much of their effort has been without the support of major hardware manufacturers. Intel, Marvell, Texas Instruments and Broadcom, though separate and competing entities, seem by one consent to prevent non-Microsoft operating systems from working properly with some of their most widely-used network chips.
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2006-01-02
How are they to know you care? Few, if any, manufacturers give you the chip[set]. So, you go to Google it, and find it, and get that one. How is, say, Linksys to know that you bought it because it had a Ralink chipset, and not because of some other feature of the part?
Now, if you know a company that has parts listed at Newegg, ZipZoomFly, etc., that actively lists the chips used for network devices, I'll go for them in the future when possible.