Auto-NDISWrapper: It could quite possibly change the world
Okay, so I have to plug this even though it’s on Digg and whatnot. Auto-NDISWrapper has hit the 0.1 stage and it looks like it could be quite awesome. I don’t have the available hardware to test this (mainly because my wifi card has a native driver) but this could quite honestly change the game for Linux. One of the main problems with Linux is the fact that some hardware doesn’t support Linux. More specifically, a lot of wireless cards don’t work natively with Linux. This leaves people having to use a wrapper of some sort (like ndiswrapper) to run their wifi cards. A wrapper basically emulates the API of Windows to allow linux to use Windows drivers. The problem with this is that it was always pretty tough to get working in a way that you could depend on. I know that when I first attempted to install Linux on a computer and get it working with my wifi I was unable due to the lack of native drivers and I couldn’t manage to get ndiswrapper to work. If this program hoenstly works and starts getting included in the package managers for the main distros this could change things for the better.