Remembering Larry Finger, who made Linux wireless work
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Remembering Larry Finger, who made Linux wireless work
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#2RIP. Thanks for the work on wifi drivers. NDISWrapper was a pain.
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#5Arstechnica has a solid write up. He did a lot of work making linux wifi and driver ecosystem significantly better.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/larry-finger-linux-w...
I remember cursing ndis wrappers and Broadcom wifi ecosystem a long time ago, Larry helped fixed that, and mentored many others along the way.
quote from the arstechnica article "In a 2023 Quora response to someone asking if someone without "any formal training in computer science" can "contribute something substantial" to Linux, Finger writes, "I think that I have." Finger links to the stats for the 6.4 kernel, showing 172,346 lines of his code in it, roughly 0.5% of the total."
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#6Sorry to hear it. His work was a key part of my entry into the software world.
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#7I always think of him every week or so for his support of a belkin wireless card FG… I had as a broke college student in 2005 trying to get linux working on my machine. His driver worked better than the belkin supported windows driver.
What do I think about? Why the hell did he volunteer his post work hours trying to do this menial job hardware thing. Did he not have a family or something? He did. And today they lost him.
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#9> will benefit users for years to come
/years/decades/s
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#10What a hero. Rest in peace.