Hey, I will be the first to admit that ndiswrapper is incredibly buggy, and that novell definitely shouldn't have to support it. However, I totally agree that it is a necessary piece of software for a linux distro, and that it is necessary to have it on a cd for people that need ndiswrapper to get in the internet. So please just include it, but with a message (also warning about the instability). You might as well display the message when people go to install it in YaST2, just like the messages when people go to install fortune or some proprietary packages. -----Original Message----- From: Peter Czanik [mailto:pczanik@fang.fa.gau.hu] Hello, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
The kernel teams gave me a big veto and asked not to ship it on the media due to the fact that we cannot debug any issues when ndiswrapper is in use,
Another idea: put ndiswrapper on the install media, as some people can't get Internet available without it, but also make a note of it at the 'installation support ' description (about page 254 in suse 10.0 startup guide) saying, that: "no support is available for ndiswrapper based network setups, and we can not provide kernel support either" Configuring ndiswrapper needs more technical knowledge anyway, than provided by the free installation support ;-) But lack of it can cause a lot of inconvenience for those who need it. Bye, -- CzP http://peter.czanik.hu/