On Tuesday 30 May 2006 18:01, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 30 May 2006 23:58, Bruce Marshall wrote:
I have an IBM Thinkpad X30 with a SmartLink winmodem inside of it. This has always been supported by SuSE. The previous release I was running was 9.3.
10.1 has a lot of SmartLink stuff on the DVD (retail) but only for a USB SmartLink modem. I've just spent about 3 hours trying to figure out why there is no 'slamr' module provided but I can't find one.
slamr wasn't GPL, and non-GPL kernel modules were removed for legal reasons
And I can't find anything on the web.... (yet) It appears SmartLink sold to Conexant and Conexant turned the drivers over to Linuxant who now wants $20 for it. That's not SuSE's fault but it makes it a mess anyway. Linuxant claims there is a free driver (limited to 14.4kb whee) but I can't find that to even prove that their driver would work. I think I'm staying with 9.3 where *everything* worked. I have too many busted things in 10.1 Now this idea of removing all this non-GPL stuff.... what was gained by that? And that is a Novell-only decision, right? And why only things that dealt with the kernel?