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[-] swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 36 points 3 weeks 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.

[-] hera@feddit.uk 18 points 3 weeks ago

Omfg I remember ndiswrapper, how the fuck did that thing even work. Loading a windows driver on Linux???

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