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Longtime Linux Wireless Developer Passes Away (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 4 months ago by Blaze@lemmy.zip to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] 8ender@lemmy.world 35 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

He died still fighting our greatest villain, flaky wifi, and for that I salute him

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

°7

[–] nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 months ago

why's your head so small

[–] bookcrawler@lemmy.world 30 points 4 months ago

https://www.echovita.com/us/obituaries/mo/smithville/larry-finger-18230101

Found the obituary. Family is requesting donations to the American Cancer society in lieu of flowers.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 10 points 4 months ago

Thank you, Larry. You will be missed.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The Linux kernel community has sadly lost one of its longtime, prolific contributors to the wireless (WiFi) drivers.

His wife shared the news of Larry Finger's passing this weekend on the linux-wireless mailing list in a brief statement.

Larry Finger began contributing originally to the Broadcom BCM43XX driver back in the day and over the years has contributed a lot to Linux WiFi drivers.

His more recent contributions had been around the RTW88, RTW89, R8188EU, R8712, RTLWIFI, B43 and other Linux networking drivers.

In part to his contributions, the Linux wireless hardware support has come a long way over the past two decades...

Longtime Linux users will certainly remember the days of struggling with WiFi support, resorting to NDISWrapper for using Windows WiFi drivers on Linux, and other headaches compared to today's largely trouble-free wireless hardware support.

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[–] Tja@programming.dev 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

NDISWrapper... Those were the days. I'm still astonished such a hack even worked at all. Basically magic.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

NDISWrapper was a big turning point for me - the first time I got Linux working and kept it for the life of the hardware, it was due to NDISWrapper.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Fuckin seriously! I worked on WiFi back then and when I saw that my jaw hit the floor. Mad hacking skills, as in mad ability to find a solution within a crazy landscape.