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minus-squareTjalinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down1·6 months agoNDISWrapper… Those were the days. I’m still astonished such a hack even worked at all. Basically magic.
minus-squareMajorHavoclinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-26 months agoNDISWrapper was a big turning point for me - the first time I got Linux working and kept it for the life of the hardware, it was due to NDISWrapper.
minus-squarefriend_of_satan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 months agoFuckin seriously! I worked on WiFi back then and when I saw that my jaw hit the floor. Mad hacking skills, as in mad ability to find a solution within a crazy landscape.
NDISWrapper… Those were the days. I’m still astonished such a hack even worked at all. Basically magic.
NDISWrapper was a big turning point for me - the first time I got Linux working and kept it for the life of the hardware, it was due to NDISWrapper.
Fuckin seriously! I worked on WiFi back then and when I saw that my jaw hit the floor. Mad hacking skills, as in mad ability to find a solution within a crazy landscape.