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Arjan van de Ven wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 14:31 -0700, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Arjan van de Ven <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:arjan@fenrus.demon.nl"><arjan@fenrus.demon.nl></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I'm surprised... I thought fedora already came with the best driver
for that hardware built in...
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<pre wrap="">Not every MAC+PHY combination is supported for the GPL NIC driver
(forcedeth) in the stock kernel or via patches to the kernel (addec
by Red Hat). So sometimes you want to load the nVidia NIC driver
(nvnet) in the meantime until the GPL NIC driver (forcedeth) catches
up.
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this is one of the reason such (illegal) binary modules are bad. People
don't report or work with the open driver to get that one fixed, but
rather just jump to the binary junk. But that way linux as a whole
doesn't make progress and it doesn't get fixed for the future, giving
again a crappy experience in the next release.
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What is 'illegal' about binary apps/drivers/modules/etc ?<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
William A. Mahaffey III
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"The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war
ever devised by man."
-- Gen. George S. Patton
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