Mauricio Teixeira (netmask) wrote:
About the bug I posted bellow:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=160804
It has been closed with the following comment:
[Andreas Jaeger]: "We will not add it to our media, it will be available via ftp only."
Can I have a "why" on that? I can't see the logics here. I didn't have a wired LAN available by the time of install, and it's not easy to get one, so you mean I'm forced to use floppies, usb sticks, or whatever other way I could get to download the packages somewhere else and install them on my machine?
Yes, I fail to see the logics here. So you're simply stating that I can't have network connection because my wlan card isn't natively supported by the kernel?
See, I would accept if you say it's a license problem with ndiswrapper (which I think isn't), but simply saying "we will not" isn't a polite answer.
Oh, BTW, the ndiswrapper on factory doesn't match ther kernel installed by beta8 CDs, so I can't even use it, unless I switch my kernel too.
Sometimes we just need to take into account the sheer number of non-native English speakers here. What Andreas meant to say most likely was: Novell/SUSE supports only HW configuration fulfilling at least one of the two conditions: Your wlan card works out of the box or you must have wired internet access. The real outcome is: ndiswrapper is not supported anymore since you might need it in order to have it. FMF