who makes the decisions

[Rahul Sundaram]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:07:16 +0100, Alexander Volovics <awol at home.nl> wrote:
> There are 3 drivers available for (Intersil) Prism2(2.5,3) chip
> wifi adapters: 'prism2', 'orinoco' and 'hostap' (802.11b).
> 
> FC3 contains the orinoco drivers. These work OK but cannot support
> a lot of features without extra patching, for example: scan, monitor,
> wpa, etc.
> 
> The hostap drivers also work OK and supply all of these features.
> 
> Why are the hostap drivers not included with FC3/FC4.
> Alternatively why are the orinoco drivers not patched so that you
> can at least scan and monitor (like in Knoppix).
> 

its worth asking but it would be a good idea to file bug reports
against the kernel in bugzilla.redhat.com first

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Regards,
Rahul Sundaram