On Wed, September 5, 2012 9:53 am, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 10:18:46AM -0700, Len Ovens wrote: >> It does happen. ethernet cards used to only come with windows drivers... >> then all of a sudden they started to come with Linux drivers... when is >> the last time you found a NIC without Linux support? > > Do they come with Linux drivers on CD with the card? My experience is > that the drivers are bundled with the kernel and someone has done a lot > of reverse engineering to get a functional FOSS driver. The last three NICs I bought had a Linux directory on the cd/floppy with kernel drivers for the card. I suspect the card manufactures did not create the drivers but just lifted them from the work already done for free, but it was there. I did not have to use those drivers though as the system I had just worked with the kernel I had. I can't say who did the actual work or how... just that it seems NICs are no longer a problem... perhaps networking is so important to computer work that there are more FOSS devs willing to work on the drivers than there are for odd audio devices. -- Len Ovens www.OvenWerks.net _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
