Direction of wireless networking in Fedora ( was RE: Wireless update to ifup and network-functions )
Farkas Levente
lfarkas at bppiac.hu
Thu Sep 16 16:44:51 UTC 2004
Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 16:23 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote:
>
>>>Major wireless cards and drivers:
>>>Orinoco (Intersil, Wavelan, Airport, etc)
>>>Cisco Aironet
>>>Atmel
>>>Prism54
>>>Intel 2100/2200
>>
>>may i add Atheros (MADwifi) to this list.
>
>
> I was more or less only including in-kernel drivers, of which MADwifi
> isn't one... But point taken. Since I work on Fedora, I can't really
> invesigate MADwifi since its not fully Open Source (due to the binary
> HAL and frequency restrictions), and while I understand _why_ its not
> fully OSS, I am really only going to fix/support in-kernel drivers for
> NetworkManager.
in this case it would be _very_ useful to be a "supported hardware" page
somewhere in the fedora website. so those who buy something can check
before buy. i agree with you if you complain against ndis-wrapper, since
it's another story. but those drivers which are not part of the
mainstream kernel and _can't_ be part because of FCC etc. but it's still
can be shipped by fedora and can be supported by it's kernel (at leaset
a separate kernel module), where the "support" means you can help to fix
problems with it, if you aware of such problems. as linus use to state a
bad driver is still better than nothing. without this the old problems
still remains "windows support all kind of hardware, while linux just a
few ones" and we can't step forward.
--
Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"
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