Joseph M. Gaffney wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 March 2006 11:33, James Ogley wrote:
>   
>>> As I've just filed bug 155723 - "ndiswrapper module missing" it would be
>>> difficult for NetworkManager to support ndiswrapper. Let's wait for the
>>> ndiswrapper fix first.
>>>       
>> Please note bug #155285
>>
>> The package you want is ndiswrapper-kmp-<flavour> where <flavour> is the
>> type of kernel you have (smp in my case).
>>
>> And NetworkManager supports whatever network devices the kernel does, so
>> all you need to do is setup the NDIS driver in ndiswrapper and you're
>> away.
>>     
>
> Ok, this isn't making much sense to me now. Maybe I'm misunderstanding 
> something here.
>
> I thought *proprietary* drivers were being removed, and issued as kmp 
> packages.  Now, open source, GPL'd software that gets linked to proprietary 
> software is removed as well?
>
> Joseph M. Gaffney
> aka CuCullin
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Exactly, this you can read in bug 155723. Seems some very experienced
lawyer went into open source programming here ;-)

FMF

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