Re: Built-In Wireless support

2006-08-17 Thread Arafangion
On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 22:40 +0300, Margiolas Christos wrote: > > > but the winmodem driver is not open source software so it's against > to the debian policy > Christos Ubuntu is also particularly pedantic in this regard. You may be able to use the Ubuntu kernel packages on the deb

Re: Built-In Wireless support

2006-08-17 Thread Pollywog
On Thursday 17 August 2006 20:59, Anthony Simonelli wrote: > That's what I'm trying to figure out. Are the > closed-source drivers for these devices compiled into > Ubuntu or FreeSpire's kernels? If so, how is it done? > > How does Ubuntu get away with using them in their > Kernel and yet remain

Re: Built-In Wireless support

2006-08-17 Thread Anthony Simonelli
That's what I'm trying to figure out. Are the closed-source drivers for these devices compiled into Ubuntu or FreeSpire's kernels? If so, how is it done? How does Ubuntu get away with using them in their Kernel and yet remain free without any EULA? I know that (Lin)FreeSpire require you to acce

Re: Built-In Wireless support

2006-08-17 Thread Margiolas Christos
but the winmodem driver is not open source software  so it's against to the debian policyChristos

Re: Built-In Wireless support

2006-08-17 Thread Pollywog
On Thursday August 17, 2006 10:14 am, Anthony Simonelli wrote: > I tried the new Ubuntu 6.06 on my laptop and it was > able to detect and install the Linksys Realtek 8180 > drivers for my wireless b card right off the bat. > Despite a well polished Gnome Desktop, I still > preferred Debian and deci