Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3397 mails)

[Ken Schneider <suse-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 19:19 -0400, Fred A. Miller wrote:
> On Thu April 21 2005 6:50 pm, Ken Schneider wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 18:27 -0400, Fred A. Miller wrote:
> > > On Thu April 21 2005 4:40 pm, Allen wrote:
> > > > You have the source code for the Kernel, either make your own driver,
> > > > or ask the hardware man to make one for Linux. Either way, quit blaming
> > > > SUSE for something they have no control over.
> > >
> > > Sure - right Allen, WRONG answer!!
> >
> > No Fred, just not the answer you wanted. SuSE is -NOT- the party to
> > blame for hardware makers -NOT- supplying drivers for their hardware.
> 
> And, that argument continues to fall on deaf ears. OEMs don't want to hear and 
> most 'Bloze users who want to dump MickySoft don't either.
> 

Should have finished it. -NOT- supplying drivers for their hardware, for
linux, when they supply them for M$.
As was pointed out by Anders and myself try the ndiswrapper, I use it
without any problems with my laptop.


-- 
Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998

 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably
  the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge