[Fedora-livecd-list] wireless and liveCD

[Rahul Sundaram]

Tony Grant wrote:
> Le jeudi 28 décembre 2006 à 18:24 +0530, Rahul Sundaram a écrit :
> 
>> The official Live CD is meant only to support whatever Fedora supports 
>> by default otherwise. There is no live cd specific magic. You are very 
>> well free to build a Live CD which has a different set of packages and 
>> branding if you want to put in 16K kernels and ndiswrapper in them. Why 
>> is that impossible to do?
> 
> This is one place where I think Fedora is wrong. It isn't impossible to
> build a CD that supports ndiswrapper the kernel thing is however working
> against the end user.
> 
> Think of the new user who wants to try FC for the first time and who may
> have any sort of WiFi card. FC liveCD can not have all the Windows
> drivers for every WiFi card on the market that is common sense. But
> delivering a kernel that prevents ndiswrapper from working with adaptors
> made by Linksys - one of the major networking players - is a non
> sense... This is just my own personal opinion.

I have already explained this elsewhere. So let me point out that again
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2006-July/msg00022.html.


Rahul