On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 16:38 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > 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. I currently have a laptop with a Linksys pcmcia wifi card that as far as I know doesn't have a native Linux driver, so I use ndiswrapper on Ubuntu on that machine. I would really like to install FC5 and native wifi support on that computer. Where can I find an authoritative list of "802.11g" pcmcia cards that are supported by native Linux drivers? I am more than willing to scrap the Linksys card and buy a new one if I _know_ it will work. Thanks. Gerry -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list