Re: [CentOS] Wireless newtworking in CentOS 5

2007-07-16 Thread Rodrigo Barbosa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 02:48:11PM -0500, B.J. McClure wrote: > On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 16:39 -0300, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 08:16:13PM +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > > > > > U. The drivers are free, they are licensed

Re: [CentOS] Wireless newtworking in CentOS 5

2007-07-16 Thread John R Pierce
I said we don't WANT do distribute it. My apologies. Guess I just assumed, silly me, that if it was not prohibited and it would make wireless a bit easier for those who use it, that would be a good thing. I probably do not understand the issue. yum has no provision to make

Re: [CentOS] Wireless newtworking in CentOS 5

2007-07-16 Thread B.J. McClure
On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 16:39 -0300, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 02:03:42PM -0500, B.J. McClure wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 15:48 -0300, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash: SHA1 > >

Re: [CentOS] Wireless newtworking in CentOS 5

2007-07-16 Thread Rodrigo Barbosa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 02:03:42PM -0500, B.J. McClure wrote: > On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 15:48 -0300, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 08:16:13PM +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: >

Re: [CentOS] Wireless newtworking in CentOS 5

2007-07-16 Thread B.J. McClure
On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 15:48 -0300, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 08:16:13PM +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > > U. The drivers are free, they are licensed under the GPL v2. The > > firmware is the problem: > >

Re: [CentOS] Wireless newtworking in CentOS 5

2007-07-16 Thread Rodrigo Barbosa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 08:16:13PM +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > U. The drivers are free, they are licensed under the GPL v2. The > firmware is the problem: > - I don't think we > want to distri

Re: [CentOS] Wireless newtworking in CentOS 5

2007-07-16 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Johnny Hughes wrote: > Red Hat has ipw2200 and ipw2100 drivers that are not free and have no > SOURCE ... but if you are a paying client you can to get them. Those > drivers and firmware are not free or re-distributable by CentOS. U. The drivers are free, they are licensed under the GPL v2. T

Re: [CentOS] Wireless newtworking in CentOS 5

2007-07-15 Thread Johnny Hughes
Andrew Allen wrote: > Installed CentOS 5 on my Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop, hoping that it will > be easier to set up wireless networking than it was in CentOS 4.4. But > still so difficult to get it working, mainly because there doesn't > appear to be a driver pre-installed for this wireless car

Re: [CentOS] Wireless newtworking in CentOS 5

2007-07-13 Thread B.J. McClure
On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 22:17 +0100, Andrew Allen wrote: > Installed CentOS 5 on my Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop, hoping that it will > be easier to set up wireless networking than it was in CentOS 4.4. But > still so difficult to get it working, mainly because there doesn't > appear to be a driver