Re: r1000 network driver

[Josh Boyer <jwboyer jdub homelinux org>]

On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 16:55 +0200, dragoran wrote:
> Why is this driver (gpl) not part of (fedoras) kernel? I got a notebook 
> with a card that required this driver and I was unable to do a network 
> install (forced to burn and use media) because networking was not 
> possible (no drivers) any change of getting it into the kernel? Should I 
> file a bug? It only needs a simple patch to compile with 2.6.17/18

It's not in the upstream kernel.  You could bug the author to submit it
upstream.  In the meantime, you could create a kmod for it in Extras.

josh