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Linux's Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 9 hours ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/linux@programming.dev

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[-] otter@lemmy.ca 76 points 9 hours ago

Wireless is just a fad anyway /s

Many expressed their appreciation for Kalle's years of service to the Linux networking stack but as of writing no one has stepped up to take over the formal maintainer role. Thankfully there are other Linux WiFi driver developers out there working on the increasing number of Linux wireless drivers, just not any immediate leader yet to take on the maintainer duties.

Good to know :)

While I didn't use Linux back then, I heard the wifi situation was difficult to deal with. I assume this maintainer is responsible for fixing that over the years?

[-] swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 28 points 9 hours ago

Back in the day it just worked because you bought a card with a supported chip.... or you had to do some ungodly things with ndiswrapper to get the Windows driver loaded.

I think back then I was using wicd as well.

It's come a long way.