I hope we have a ceremony to pay our respects on pioneers like Larry.
He will be remembered for what he did for this community. RIP.
Wow Larry contributed to these old Broadcom drivers?! I’m using them to this day on my old macbook. RIP
Larry Finger, your work has made a significant positive impact on my life and I’m sure many others. Thank you.
Now can you work on a driver to allow communication between the living and the dead?
Can we get developers from the heavens to maintain FOSS?
Upstream
Bro you dont wana be bottom stream, Theres lots of daemons
Lmao
I would like to thank him for everything, just thx ❤️ RIP
F for respect
Based dude May he rest in piece as a fucking legend
If a random reddit post is correct and he was 84 years old, I can only hope to have the same drive and mental ability at that age. RIP.
I still say the elderly is ripe for development. Not having an issue sitting or standing for long periods of time. Plus the constant problem solving.
There should be a way to get seniors to work with and foss keystone foss projects.
Not to mention after they start its the monthly group meeting…
I hope I’m rocking that hard at 84.
My next non-alcohol bubbly drink will be in your honor, Larry.
non-alcohol bubbly drink
Sounds like a good step towards rocking hard at 84.
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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Great summary bot, as ever. But missed this absolute gem from the comments:
“Thanks for helping me wardrive and steal the WiFi from that dentist, Larry.”
Holy cow I can’t believe it. RIP
Is this the dude that made ndiswapper actually work?
This is unexpected, and hits really hard. I tried to get one of his drivers running with a fairly new USB wifi adapter, I made a Github issue, and he was super kind and helpful. This was only in May, it feels unreal to read this news. What a terrible loss, my deepest condolences to his family and friends.
RIP and thank you for your contributions!
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