Wireless in FC4

Kenneth Porter shiva at sewingwitch.com
Thu Mar 10 16:23:06 UTC 2005


--On Thursday, March 10, 2005 9:40 AM -0600 Gregory G Carter 
<gcarter at aesgi.com> wrote:

> Perhaps manufacturers who only distribute firmware binaries could provide
> the kernel operating groups urls to put into the "make config".  That way
> when I or someone else goes to build or install an initial kernel, you do
> not get a "kiddie-wumpus" kernel installation with drivers that do not
> work.

What happens when you install with Anaconda from CD or HD and the only 
network connection is your wireless NIC? Are you assuming that the firmware 
is locally available to the installation kernel, perhaps as a linked-in 
image?





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