Marcel Hilzinger wrote: > Please do your homework before posting. AVM drivers were removed, yes. But > smartlink drivers are still there.
I am afraid but, once again it seems to be you who needs to do homework... Open smartlink-softmodem-kmp-default-2.9.10_2.6.16.13_4-44.i586.rpm and you will see that only slusb.ko is there. The much more needed slamr.ko (because almost every laptop nowadays comes with this type of modems) has been removed. > Perhaps. But now you at least know, what you are doing. It's more > Linux-like, not Windows-like :-) Linux will never increase its desktop market share with that kind of mentality. That's for sure. > Running binary drivers from ATI or Nvidia on servers seems a bad idea for > me. But I guess we do not have the same definition of server. It's not graphics drivers. It's modems and ISDN cards drivers that are commonly needed on some servers (hylafax servers, for example). And with the AVM drivers removal, kernel security updates require manual intervention. > But the whole story is more about the work of the kernel developers, > debugging closed source drivers instead of writing open source ones etc. Kernel developers are not and never were supposed to debug closed source drivers. That is the responsability of the closed source drivers publishers. Period. We all thought this matter was solved years and years ago. It is very unfortunate that Novell took this step back without, at least, giving a clear justification to its users. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
