[nzlug] Acer + Ubuntu: initial impressions.

[Simon Bridge]

On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 14:12 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Wed, April 2, 2008 3:23 am, Simon Bridge wrote:
> 
> > The Aetheros cards seem to be very common on cheaper laptops - which
> > this is. If it is on a mini-pci card, there's not much excuse.
> 
> Some people still would complain that the atheros driver is not truly free
> (it loads a closed cource firmware).
> 
Well this one uses the windows binary with ndiswrapper. AFAIK.

Now - what's the GPL have to say about binary only drivers accessed via
a wrapper?

Also means I'd better get that binary before reinstall.