Mauricio Teixeira (netmask) wrote: > About the bug I posted bellow: > > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=160804 > > It has been closed with the following comment: > > [Andreas Jaeger]: "We will not add it to our media, it will be available > via ftp only." > > Can I have a "why" on that? I can't see the logics here. I didn't have a > wired LAN available by the time of install, and it's not easy to get > one, so you mean I'm forced to use floppies, usb sticks, or whatever > other way I could get to download the packages somewhere else and > install them on my machine? > > Yes, I fail to see the logics here. So you're simply stating that I > can't have network connection because my wlan card isn't natively > supported by the kernel? > > See, I would accept if you say it's a license problem with ndiswrapper > (which I think isn't), but simply saying "we will not" isn't a polite > answer. > > Oh, BTW, the ndiswrapper on factory doesn't match ther kernel installed > by beta8 CDs, so I can't even use it, unless I switch my kernel too. > > Sometimes we just need to take into account the sheer number of non-native English speakers here. What Andreas meant to say most likely was: Novell/SUSE supports only HW configuration fulfilling at least one of the two conditions: Your wlan card works out of the box or you must have wired internet access. The real outcome is: ndiswrapper is not supported anymore since you might need it in order to have it.
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