Well, I doubt that mandrake will ever support them in the download edition for two reasons.
1. The drivers are not open source.. they contain conextent binaries. (but they are free) 2. Mandrake would obviously prefer people to buy a distro, (or join the club) the drivers are just another way to encourage that. Personally the GPL only rule in the download edition is abit silly I think.. "free" should be good enough. If mandrake really wants to become a viable winblows desktop competitor, they won't be sucessful if they don't support the most popular video card on the market off the shelf,, nor the most common modem type around either... and the support should be without effort.. The drivers are free anyway.. the only people it should bother to include them is Richard stallman, Linus and possibly a few others.. Its the only answer really.. winblows doesn't support nvidia or the modems off the bat either. but they do come with a winblows disk that makes it a point and click afair.... neither do that for linux yet. I don't mind installing stuff myself, but I have been running linux in some form since redhat 4.x. a newbie doesn't understand rpm let along tar.gz.. so running straight from the box is a pretty big thing.. In the very least, there should be a script in all mandrake installs that can run, fetch the latest correct driver for nvidia or lucent or conextant (or whatever) and help a newbie install it... and it should run on the detection of that device.. (cos most newbies probably don't know they have nvidia or winmodem...) just some thoughts. rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: et [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 7 June 2002 6:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Connexant HSF and HCF modems..LINmodems? ET phones home just me considering that if Mandrake is going to "officially" offer the drivers, I guess I cann't rant about how much a pain these modems are any more... On Friday 07 June 2002 02:00 am, you wrote: > I don't understand,,,, ,the hcf/hsf drivers are free on the net anyway... > > used them for a while.. under very active development too... work well for > 8.2. > > http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv > > rgds > > Frank > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of et > Sent: Friday, 7 June 2002 4:20 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [newbie] Connexant HSF and HCF modems..LINmodems? ET phones > home > > > I noticed in the latest Mandrake Club newsletter; > > "It's hard to break the old habits, but it looks as if we are finally doing > it! Thanks to Lenny, Till, and Damien, the MandrakeClub downloads area has > finally started receiving new RPMs for MandrakeLinux 8.2: > > * drivers for Connexant HSF and HCF modems"<snip> > they gots lots of other goodies for club members too (discounts,etc...) > well it looks like I will have to put away my soapbox. > > Ed
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