On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 16:31 +0100, Grant Williamson wrote:
> IPW3945 is an important card, wireless is an important for the linux
> desktop, redhat simply does not deliver.
> It's a shame, real shame.
>
You should take this to Intel, the lovely developers of this binary
blob. The entire opensource community has been up in arms since the
ipw3945 hardware was released and Intel posted the blob that was
required to conform with FCC regulations. Had Intel released the
ipw3925 the way ipw2200 worked, I think Red Hat might have shipped the
firmware in Extras and included the kmdl in RHEL 5.
While you may not agree with the gray area issues about non-open-source
blobs in RHEL, it's fairly obvious why Red Hat cannot include this in
their enterprise distro. Enterprise customers require stability over
many years and the ipw3945 situation is not something Red Hat can tackle
at the moment. If you need ipw3945 to work, use Axel's excellent RPM
repository. If it breaks, you keep both pieces. :-)
/Brian/
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