Johnny Hughes,
Sparc/Chocolate Ice Cream ....
we are talking about 1 wireless card here. SLED/Ubuntu support this card
RHEL does not.
End of discussion.
Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 11:55 +0100, Grant Williamson wrote:
When you are deploying linux to the laptop user, and have to add/support
many additional drivers it's a different story.
Yes one can argue that its the hardware vendors fault, and you should
complain to them. The reality is we live in a Microsoft world(like
nobody knew that).
I just wished that RedHat were able to provide these proprietary
drivers, and not rely on 3rd party sites(it's hardy enterprise). There
are always ways to work around IP issues.
They do provide support for things on the Hardware Compatibility
List ... where that will NOT be.
Do you complain that Windows 2003 Server will not install on a Sparc
T2000 machine with a T1 processor?
Do you buy chocolate ice cream from a manufacturer who doesn't make
vanilla ice cream and then complain that you are allergic to chocolate?
If hardware vendors will not make their drivers open source ... and if
you insist on using their products which are not on the HCL (and not
moving to vendors who do use open source and are on the HCL) then YOU
are the problem. YOU, not Red Hat, are enabling the situation.
This issue is absolutely market driven. If people would contact the
vendor, require that they provide a workable driver or make them refund
the purchase price and stop settling for closed source binary shit then
this situation would be fixed ... failing that, if you use a product not
on the HCL, you are on your own.
RHEL 5 is not made to install on there, they removed it from the kernel
because they do not support it. If you want a supported Enterprise
solution, buy items on the HCL.
I don't understand why this is such a hard issue to comprehend.
Maybe I am just too dense?
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