Please suggest a fedora core 4 compatible wireless card

[Welty, Richard]

Douglas Phillipson writes:
>After doing some research I discovered all I had to do was install the 
>firmware with yum.  (yum -y install ipw2200-firmware)

>Why doesn't Fedora install this with the distribution?  If the driver is 
>in the kernel, why isn't the firmware on the CD? 

i can't speak to specifics, but in general a lot of firmware for various
modern cards is under restrictive licenses that are incompatible with
FOSS style redistribution (whether it be GPL or BSD, that is the
*BSDs have the same legal issues with the licensing that Linux does.)

richard