Direction of wireless networking in Fedora ( was RE: Wireless update to ifup and network-functions )

Farkas Levente lfarkas at bppiac.hu
Thu Sep 16 21:04:15 UTC 2004


Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 01:29:29PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> 
>>Unfortunately, I don't think we can ship MADwifi due to the HAL.  Does
>>Debian ship it in debian-free?  Because if they do, then Fedora will
>>almost definitely be able to as well.
> 
> 
> MAdwifi doesn't meet the free software requirements for Fedora, which isn't
> to say it can't be in a third party repository. Within the limits of
> their interpretation of the FCC rules and their hardware they've done about
> as much as they can however.

yes! and that's the point here, in this case no one can ship any driver 
for wireless devices with atheros chipset which is more free than 
madwifi. what is the solution (other than use other device:-)?

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