Dave Jones wrote:
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 07:40:42AM +0800, John Summerfied wrote:
> I do recall comparing the number of lines of Linux kernel with the
> number of lines of RH patches back around RHL 7.3. Are you saying RH has
> changed its ways?
Fedora has had the goal of being as close to upstream as possible since
day one. We still carry some patches, but "extra feature/driver" is something
we try to avoid. The disaster we had with supporting ipw over the last
few releases is a good example why.
Would it then be possible to include a tool that facilitates users'
fetching and building some not-ready-for-prime-time drivers such as the
madwifi drivers, drivers for common sofmodems? It might not need more
than an additional yum repository and some commitment with others to
work together to keep drivers synchronised and a (maybe dummy) package
for users to install that "requires" matching kernel and drivers
packages so yum and its friends and competitors can ensure, when users
using both kernel and brand-X-wireless-driver don't get a new kernel
unless they can also get the matchiing brand-X-wireless-driver.
ATM support for laptops in the various distros is very variable.
Ubuntu (breezy) installed the madwifi driver (and I know handles some
other 11g wireless too) out of the box. I didn't notice that it did
anything for my softmodem. Ubuntu's stated aim for the next release is
pretty much what OS X does: basically, once it's configured (and that's
easy), the Mac checks for APs it knows and attaches to one.
SUSE 10 installed the drivers for both fine, but I suspect it will fall
down in moving between home and office (different APs).
Mandriva offered to install ndiswrapper, but neither I nor M knew where
in my XP system to find the driver.
FC does nothing.
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John
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