Kernel Modules in Fedora -x

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Aug 7 19:51:38 UTC 2007


Les Mikesell wrote:
> 
> But I don't necessarily want to limit my machine to fedora-owned 
> drivers. If that is a restriction, then it should be stated clearly 
> where a new user would see it before installing.

Fedora cannot in anyway help with third party proprietary kernel 
drivers. That has been said several times quite prominently.
> 
> It's probably not coincidental that fedora works nicely on your 
> hardware.  It hasn't been that way for me much of the time and the user 
> mail list makes it look like others have many of the same issues.

Fedora works quite nicely on my system because I specifically got a box 
which doesn't require anything proprietary to work. Well except the 
wireless firmware.

Rahul




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