Installation report 2 for beta 1

[John Summerfied]

Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 07:40:42AM +0800, John Summerfied wrote:
> 
>  > I do recall comparing the number of lines of Linux kernel with the 
>  > number of lines of RH patches back around RHL 7.3. Are you saying RH has 
>  > changed its ways?
> 
> Fedora has had the goal of being as close to upstream as possible since
> day one.  We still carry some patches, but "extra feature/driver" is something
> we try to avoid.  The disaster we had with supporting ipw over the last
> few releases is a good example why.

Would it then be possible to include a tool that facilitates users' 
fetching and building some not-ready-for-prime-time drivers such as the 
madwifi drivers, drivers for common sofmodems? It might not need more 
than an additional yum repository and some commitment with others to 
work together to keep drivers synchronised and a (maybe dummy) package 
for users to install that "requires" matching kernel and drivers 
packages so yum and its friends and competitors can ensure, when users 
using both kernel and brand-X-wireless-driver don't get a new kernel 
unless they can also get the matchiing brand-X-wireless-driver.

ATM support for laptops in the various distros is very variable.

Ubuntu (breezy) installed the madwifi driver (and I know handles some 
other 11g wireless too) out of the box. I didn't notice that it did 
anything for my softmodem. Ubuntu's stated aim for the next release is 
pretty much what OS X does: basically, once it's configured (and that's 
easy), the Mac checks for APs it knows and attaches to one.

SUSE 10 installed the drivers for both fine, but I suspect it will fall 
down in moving between home and office (different APs).

Mandriva offered to install ndiswrapper, but neither I nor M knew where 
in my XP system to find the driver.

FC does nothing.

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Cheers
John

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