On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, John Madden wrote:
> NForce ethernet is working fine with the NVidia binary only drivers.
What happens when NVidia EOL their support for NForce3 and stop
providing drivers?
> I'm happy enough that companies like NVidia are even recognising
> that Linux user's should be supported aswell. Whether that means
> releasing specs or writing drivers is up to the company.
If you're happy fine. On a practical basis, I'd never be happy with
such drivers - I'd avoid buying that hardware in the first place.
And yes, I guess its up to the company ultimately - IMHO it should
*not* be, there should be a law mandating that fullest available
programming information be included either with the hardware or
downloadable. However, when your hardware is not special, when its
essentially like most other hardware, its *definitely* damn impolite
to not provide specs. I dont understand how people like yourself can
be happy with such, but hey.
YMMV.
regards,
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