Intel Pro Wireless cards

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

> 
> Is this lock out based on ideology or reality. 
> Including "free as in 
> beer" firmware does not compromise the ability to
> redistribute Fedora 
> freely and I think it moves us closer to the goal of
> a genreal-purpose 
> operating system out of the box. 

but only if the firmware is actually freely
redistributable. many vendors do not agree to this.
OpenBSD had a users campaign and they did get some
success with it but intel has refused to cooperate

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Regards
Rahul Sundaram


	
		
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