Waldemar Kornewald wrote:
Right. I see the problem, but I also want to buy the best WiFi card without looking at whether Haiku supports it or not.
There is no really good answer to this question. If your networking card works you can say "we don't want NDIS!", but if you card did/does not work many people will say "give me at least NDIS, if not a native driver".
Or you can buy cards that works with your OS of choice.
NDIS is not bad, it just is not Perfect(tm). Even the BSD and Linux guys have one and they probably had more problems with that.
If you know that there is no native driver for some card, will you buy it?
No.
I would not because I do not NDIS will run as fast and as stable as a native driver. But if I already have the card, I will be happy with a temporary solution.
I can certainly see that there's a need for the NDIS wrapper but I dont think it should be part of the core Haiku source. It is something that the Haiku-based distros can add at their leasure.
--- Lars Hansson
