Marcus Meissner wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 11:45:42AM -0500, 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?
>>     
>
> ndiswrapper is in factory and I think on CD1. It has not been removed.
>
> Ciao, Marcus
>
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Marcus, ndiswrapper is out of function if the module is not there, isn't
it? So, it does not really matter, whether ndiswrapper is included or
not, it's not usable.

FMF

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