atmel drivers in the main distro?

[Tim Hawkins]

msevior at physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:

>>Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 12:32:00 -0600
>>From: Steven Pritchard <steve at silug.org>
>>To: fedora-devel-list at redhat.com
>>Subject: Re: atmel drivers in the main distro?
>>Reply-To: fedora-devel-list at redhat.com
>>
>>On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 03:30:50AM +1100, msevior at physics.unimelb.edu.au
>>wrote:
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>>>Is there a reason the atmel wireless drivers are not distributed with
>>>the
>>>main Fedora disto?
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>>There are a lot of wireless drivers that aren't integrated into the
>>kernel.  I'd suggest bugging the upstream developers about getting
>>their driver into Linus's tree.
>>
>>In the mean time, there are other open-source wireless drivers in
>>fedora.us QA (at least my kernel-module-hostap package and a
>>kernel-module-prism54 package I noticed yesterday).  I'd love to see
>>more.  (Actually, I'd love to see the existing ones make it through QA
>>even more.  :-)
>>
>>Steve
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>It certainly makes sense for the these to be rolled into the 2.4 and 2.6
>kernels.
>
>So what the best route to do this? How do I let whoever know that the
>atmel drivers WorksForMe?
>
>I also think these should be put into whatever Kernel Fedora is rolling
>for FC 2. Since this is RedHat's perogative, I'll happily email the person
>doing this if (s)he isn't reading this list or missed my post.
>
>Cheers
>
>Martin
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I would also like to see these drivers integrated. I have the belkin 
card too.