ndiswrapper missing?
Josh
islifefun1975 at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 7 21:46:57 UTC 2006
Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:
it's deliberatly not shipped.
> I may have overlooked. Is there a reason not to bundle ndiswrapper with FC5T3?
- it creates a situation where if you get a kernel bug, I'm not even going
to look at it, because *anything* could have happened, and as the driver
is effectively binary only, there's nothing I can do about it.
- it reinforces the message to hardware vendors that it's ok to not
release documentation or native Linux drivers, because 'they can just use
the windows driver'. This is not a 'might happen' btw, there are already
companies saying this when you call them to ask for documentation.
Makes perfect sense. I admire fedora taking the same stance as OpenBSD.
I'll return my unsupported USB dongle and get a Ralink/atheros one.
Josh
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