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I had this problem myself and ended up re-wiring the phones in my house
so I could move the router closer to my computer and hard wiring my
computer to the router while taking the wireless adapter off my
computer and installing it on my son's computer because Belkin does not
make its drivers available to FOSS operating systems, only Mac and MS.
Anyvody up for doing some corporate lobbying??? Say, organizing a
letter writing campaign by FOSS users to Belkin??? I've got Belkin's
address here somewhere. Just have to look for it? Maybe ask each LoCo
to mobilize their members to write letters?????
And if someone could tell me who the manufacturers are for the drivers
listed in the original email, we can add them to the list.
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Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:12:11 -0000
From: Dereck Wonnacott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Bug 239082] Re: (wireless) network driver missing from the dvd
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1
Microsoft has a majority market share
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(wireless) network driver missing from the dvd
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/239082
You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
of the bug (via bug 1).
Status in Ubuntu: New
Bug description:
Well, this actually is not a "real" bug, it is just a design flaw.
When you are installing from a media (namely the dvd, but I guess that
would be worst for the cdrom) you should get from there everything you
need to "start-up". Unfortunately this was not the case for a good 2
among the 3 computers (home, work and wife) on where I installed
Ubuntu. For both, the wireless network was not working and it was
really a pain to find workarounds to make it available. The sad thing
is that the packages to make the network works are available and
well-working, but only for download, not on the media!! How are you
supposed to download something from the network, if the network itself
is not working? I guess in the mind of who made this choice, wireless
is the "secondary" network, whereas wired is the primary, but this was
not the case for me. These packages MUST be included in the dvd AND
cdrom for the future releases, IMHO (there is not space problem for the
DVD which is not overflowing)
The first laptop needed b43-fwcutter. Here the problem is the license
which does not allow the distribution. Canonical should lobby to change
their mind.
The second computer needed ndiswrapper. Here there is not any license
problem (and the packages are actually three, not one).
Thanks
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Peace!
John
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