On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:19:18AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
ndiswrapper is a module loader. But it does not take the appropriate
actions while handling non-free modules.
It sure tries.
| /*
| * ndiswrapper is under GPL by itself, but loads proprietary
modules.
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On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 08:03:16PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
Several people, including Linux upstream, declares ndiswrapper as
non-free. Please move it to the appropriate section.
No they don't. There are even completely GPL drivers that are possible
to run under ndiswrapper.
The upstream
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 05:54:57PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 08:03:16PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
Several people, including Linux upstream, declares ndiswrapper as
non-free. Please move it to the appropriate section.
No they don't. There are even completely
Kel Modderman wrote:
ndiswrapper has been integrated into a forked linux-modules-extra-2.6
source package[0], and I found that a custom rules override is required
for successful building of ndiswrapper in that framework.
Please don't override rules, please fix your module-source package
On Friday 20 June 2008 16:12:09 Daniel Baumann wrote:
Kel Modderman wrote:
ndiswrapper has been integrated into a forked linux-modules-extra-2.6
source package[0], and I found that a custom rules override is required
for successful building of ndiswrapper in that framework.
Please don't
On Friday 20 June 2008 18:38:42 Daniel Baumann wrote:
Kel Modderman wrote:
other than
it not conforming to the standard kbuild invocation as it would if it were
aiming for mainline Linux exclusion.
it is a (not yet written) policy that each module-source package needs
to work like this
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:38:42AM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote:
it is a (not yet written) policy that each module-source package needs
to work like this in order get into linux-modules-*.
why/what is it so difficult to add/adjust the toplevel makefile to do that?
Well perhaps documentation
Daniel Baumann wrote:
Kel Modderman wrote:
other than
it not conforming to the standard kbuild invocation as it would if it were
aiming for mainline Linux exclusion.
it is a (not yet written) policy that each module-source package needs
to work like this in order get into linux-modules-*.
Lennart Sorensen wrote:
Well perhaps documentation on what exactly the calling syntax is, what
the nevironment is and such would be helpful.
jup, is on my (quite large) todo list. though I prefere to work on the
RC issues first, that's why it's not yet done.
I managed to get the nvidia driver
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 04:57:00PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote:
jup, is on my (quite large) todo list. though I prefere to work on the
RC issues first, that's why it's not yet done.
we should get nvidia-* really done now. may I have a look at what you
have right now?
The current release
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 03:27:57PM +1000, Kel Modderman wrote:
Package: linux-modules-extra-2.6
Followup-For: Bug #385553
Several people, including Linux upstream, declares ndiswrapper as
non-free. Please move it to the appropriate section.
Bastian
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Package: linux-modules-extra-2.6
Followup-For: Bug #385553
ndiswrapper has been integrated into a forked linux-modules-extra-2.6
source package[0], and I found that a custom rules override is required
for successful building of ndiswrapper in that framework.
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