[plug] Linux thin clients

[Quintin Lette]

Glad I didn't buy one then :-)

oh well... it was a nice thought (ultra cheap pci wlan cards)

On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 03:33 pm, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > Minitar.. . If theres a large enough order, I'm sure I could arrange
> > something. Anyone else interested?
> >
> > IIRC, PCI + PCMCIA, both around $45-50.
>
> The copyright statement from the drivers, fixed to wrap properly.
>
>   * (c) Copyright 2002, Ralink Technology, Inc.
>   *
>   * All rights reserved. Ralink's source code is an unpublished work and
>      the use of a copyright notice does not imply otherwise. This source
> code contains confidential trade secret material of Ralink Tech. Any
> attemp or participation in deciphering, decoding, reverse engineering or
> in     any way altering the source code is stricitly prohibited, unless
> the     prior written consent of Ralink Technology, Inc. is obtained.
>
> Yay. Amusing given that I just downloaded this "unpublished work" from
> the minitar website, too.
>
> A comment from
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/76869
>
>
>    Reading through the documentation (which brings new meaning
>    to bad English), and poking through the source, it doesn't
>    look like this driver supports "iwconfig" at all, or anything
>    for that matter in the realm of kernel wireless API, yet
>    there's a whole mess of .c for wep and authentication...
>    its version 1.0, he might not have it working with wireless
>    extensions correctly just yet. Of course... the source if 9
>    months old.
>
>    Checking through that RH-centric binary package though,
>    it seems that they have included a configuration binary
>    along with the rest of the mess, so theorectically you could
>    use the RH-festival of stuff and let it install the configuration
>    utility and the worthless RH module, then install your
>    handcompiled module over it.
>
>    Then, as far as I can tell, fire up /usr/local/bin/RaConfig
>     (from X as it seems this thing won't work from the command line),
>     and see if that has some enc/essid functionality to it.
>
> In other words - looks dodgy as hell, and I'm staying right away from
> this one.
>
> Also, see:
> https://wireless.org.au/archives/melbwireless/2003/Jul/13946.html
> which suggests that the hardware may not be too hot either.
>
> Craig Ringer