Re: Direction of wireless networking in Fedora ( was RE: Wireless update to ifup and network-functions )

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 01:29:29PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> Unfortunately, I don't think we can ship MADwifi due to the HAL.  Does
> Debian ship it in debian-free?  Because if they do, then Fedora will
> almost definitely be able to as well.

MAdwifi doesn't meet the free software requirements for Fedora, which isn't
to say it can't be in a third party repository. Within the limits of
their interpretation of the FCC rules and their hardware they've done about
as much as they can however.