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.
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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
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...
Holy cow I can't believe it. RIP
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.
The original article contains 183 words, the summary contains 137 words. Saved 25%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
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."
im pretty sure i've used his drivers one time or another across my older macbooks or in one of my usb cards. RIP to Larry, I'm sure the linux community will miss his amazing contributions.
RIP and thank you for your contributions!
Based dude May he rest in piece as a fucking legend
Wow Larry contributed to these old Broadcom drivers?! I'm using them to this day on my old macbook. RIP
https://www.echovita.com/us/obituaries/mo/smithville/larry-finger-18230101
Obituary. Family is requesting donations to the American Cancer society in lieu of flowers.
I shall pay out of thanks for Larry making my Broadcom chip work in at least 2 devices. Is there an aggregator/list for other key contributors?
RIP Larry.
Is this the dude that made ndiswapper actually work?
I could not get this to quote right so I used code, but look at the footer that is unfortunate.
* Re: Larry Finger
2024-06-22 23:01 Larry Finger Denise Finger
@ 2024-06-23 5:47 ` Sirius
2024-06-23 16:15 ` Rafał Miłecki
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Sirius @ 2024-06-23 5:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Denise Finger; +Cc: linux-wireless
On lör, 2024/06/22 at 18:01:23 GMT, Denise Finger wrote:
> This is to notify you that Larry Finger, one of your developers, passed
> away on June 21st.
Sincere condolences and our deepest sympathies for your loss.
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Kind regards,
/S
If the is something better. I hope you are there.
Being used to tone tags, that /S signature felt so weird at first.
I'm struggling with what appears to be buggy wifi on an old Lenovo laptop... I spent a moment just looking at the logs and appreciating whoever has spent time and energy trying to get this working, probably reverse engineering without any support... I wonder if that was Larry...?
I would like to thank him for everything, just thx ❤️ RIP
F for respect
He will be remembered for what he did for this community. RIP.
I hope we have a ceremony to pay our respects on pioneers like Larry.
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