madwifi in fedora 8
Martin Jürgens
martin at gamesplace.info
Sun Oct 14 10:32:52 UTC 2007
Hi!
The reason for this is that some parts of madwifi are non-free (the
HAL).
The Fedora project decided not to ship non-free parts, which includes
proprietary ATI drivers, proprietary NVIDIA drivers and Madwifi in order
to encourage the vendors to publish specifications and / or free
drivers. This worked for ATI, and we will have free drivers supporting
newer chipsets available soon.
Fedora 8 will ship with ath5k, which is open source and supports Atheros
chipsets, also. The madwifi developers develop it now.
Martin
Am Sonntag, den 14.10.2007, 10:01 +0200 schrieb a3ukasz Peb3szynski:
> Good morning,
> I wonder why madwifi was not included in fedora 6 & 7 by default.
> I had a big trouble configuring my wireless network.
> Will it be included in fedora 8?
>
> Greetings
>
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