On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 01:31:09PM -0800, Josh wrote: > Hello testers, > > After a fresh FC5T3 install, i was configuring my USB wireless network > dongle and couldn't find ndiswrapper on the FC5T3 CD. 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. The fact that other distros are shipping this is really sad. Given a lot of ex-Windows users fled that platform because they were tired of crashes, I'm amazed that people now want to run the drivers from it, when a lot of the time, they were the cause of the problems. I know it sucks to have hardware that you can't use. I've got a similar device myself that doesn't work right now. But there's hope that at some point the bcm43xx driver will work with it. Testing, and providing feedback to developers of *native* drivers is the direction we want to be headed toward. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list