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

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Thu Sep 16 17:29:29 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 18:44 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote:
> 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 

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.

Note that we don't ship Wireless driver firmware either due to legal
issues.

Dan





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