Greetings, On 2/18/06, Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de> wrote:
This is certainly a possible workaround for a missing driver, and it's fine. You self-compile the driver.
Unfortunately, on every kernel update, you'll lose the driver again and have to update the kernel-source RPM as well and redo the above steps (except for downloading of course).
Yes, I realize this. I am sorry if I was not clear in my posting. There have been several complaints about not being able to use Atheros cards *currently* during the betas, so I thought I would give instructions for self-compiling to make sure we have more people involved in beta testing.
Not very user-friendly -- and that's the reason we have designed something better, a solution that allows kernel modules that are not shipped by us for whatever reason to integrate cleanly and survive kernel updates. http://en.opensuse.org/Kernel_Module_Packages
We expect to soon have packages provided this way. Then, that would be the solution that I would recommend here rather than self-compiling.
I am aware of this, and think it will be a much better design all around. It's just a bit painful during the transition period, especially for people like me who depend on the nongpl modules. I am looking forward to this being fully implemented, and the proper packages provided. Thanks for all your hard work. Kirk