[TriLUG] how do USB disks and USB wifi cards work?

[Alan Porter]

> This seems like bad history being repeated. Is this a matter 
> of no-one sitting down together and saying "we're all going 
> to do it this way".
>   

There is no motivation for network card manufacturers
to create and adhere to a standard. Traditionally, they
write and ship their own (Windows) device drivers. Why
would they make the work any easier for competitors?

Alan
(who used to work for a large device manufacturer)




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