Please suggest a fedora core 4 compatible wireless card

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at redhat.com
Fri Nov 25 21:18:16 UTC 2005


Hi

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

Intel Centrino drivers are GPL and maintained within the kernel from 
2.6.14 onwards and as patches within the Fedora kernel before that for 
quite sometime. Unfortunately the firmware license is not compatible 
with the Fedora guidelines. At the basic minimum it would require 
redistribution rights.

regards
Rahul




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