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.
The WLAN strategy gets even more messy since (bug 148210) NetworkManager does support the fairly widespread prism54 chip through ndiswrapper only at present. So SUSE is aiming back to the good old rock-solid wired LAN, so it seems. Do not worry that bug 148210 has been declared fixed, it's just cosmetics for the time being: no fix has been submitted yet making ndiswrapper obsolete for prism54 support. FMF