fedora-list Digest, Vol 49, Issue 116
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Mar 18 18:54:13 UTC 2008
Rodney Morris wrote:
> Ubuntu ships with the splix drivers, not a proprietary driver. (At
> least this is true for Hardy Heron.) The splix source is available
> from splix.ap2c.org. You will need the cups-devel and cupsddk
> packages installed to compile and install the splix drivers.
> Unfortunately, to my knowledge, the splix has not been packaged for
> Fedora.
Fedora doesn't package non-upstream kernel modules as separate packages
within the repository anymore. Either the kernel package is directly
patched or the module doesn't exist within the official Fedora repository.
Rahul
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