On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Kevin Dupuy
On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 20:03 -0700, John Andersen wrote:
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Ken Schneider
wrote: Peter Van Lone pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Masim Vavai Sugianto
wrote: I have same problem with AR-5212. Wifi driver ath5k doesn't work. You have 2 choice for this kind problem :
1. Manually install madwifi driver from tar.gz (madwifi.org), with standar ./configure, make and make install. You must have gcc, make and kernel-source for this
2. Marek Stopka has built madwifi driver for openSUSE. Please take a look here : http://www.m4r3k.org/english/opensuse-linux/madwifi-driver-for-opensuse-110/
I choose the first option and my AR-5212 worked flawlessly.
The question for me is why would open suse not have support for devices? I'm sick of hearing either "but it just works in Ubuntu" or "but it just works in Windows"!
GAH!
Peter
openSUSE adheres strictly to licensing issues where Ubunto doesn't seem to care if they get sued.
But they haven't got sued have they!!!
Isn't it more likely Ubuntu have negotiated a redistribution license or are simply using ndiswrapper with windows drivers downloaded directly from the source?
This bugaboo of law suits is a lame excuse. If the lawyers that veto all the drivers that suse leaves out or cripples spent half that amount oif time on the phone negotiating redistribution opensuse would be a complete distro out of the box/torrent.
These could be packaged separately so as safely segregate these drivers from the GPL.
SUSE used to include these drivers, specifically madwifi, so it isn't a matter of not getting sued, it's a amtter of being open source.
An even lamer excuse. There are some drivers that are never going to be free. If suse won't find a way to include them, don't be supprised when the userbase wanders off to a distro that will. -- ----------JSA--------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org