Open Letter to D-Link - Please help Linux users by providing *.inf and *.sys files (instead of Setup.exe)
So recently I was working on a computer for a customer of mine who wanted to replace Vi$ta on her computer with Ubuntu GNU/Linux Hardy Heron. The customer really, really doesn't like Vi$ta, and I don't blame her, but that is a story for another day. The real reason for this posting is to hopefully alert the D-Link company to a problem that us GNU/Linux users are faced with when using their products, in this case the D-Link DWA-130 Ver:A1 USB wireless adapter. First of all, I believe D-Link products are good products, I really do. However, for some of the D-Link products to work on GNU/Linux, we are forced to use the ndiswrapper because there are no Linux drivers available(yet). As for using the ndiswrapper, the ubuntuforums.org says we can use the ndiswrapper for the DWA-130 here . Using the ndiswrapper is not a big deal to me, since I simply fire up the sudo ndisgtk utility to then load the *.inf (win) driver. BUT THE PROBLEM IS D-LINK DOES NOT LET ME DOWNLOAD THE *.inf and *....