Bug 148199

Summary: Atheros WLAN support missing
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1 Reporter: Forgotten User N1m2whZ-xl <forgotten_N1m2whZ-xl>
Component: Mobile DevicesAssignee: Andreas Jaeger <aj>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: asklein, forgotten_OS1JNCFbCX, vetter
Version: Beta 3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86-64   
OS: Other   
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Found By: Beta-Customer Services Priority:
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Description Forgotten User N1m2whZ-xl 2006-02-04 01:55:30 UTC
kernel-smp-nongpl in /suse/10.1/SUSE-Linux10.1-Beta3-Extra is missing.
Comment 1 Joachim Gleissner 2006-02-06 16:37:37 UTC
This is probably intentional.
Comment 2 Forgotten User N1m2whZ-xl 2006-02-06 17:31:12 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> This is probably intentional.
> 

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Comment 3 Andreas Jaeger 2006-02-07 17:10:13 UTC
We will not be shipping nongpl modules as part of 10.1, this is intented.
Comment 4 Forgotten User N1m2whZ-xl 2006-02-07 17:22:56 UTC
It would be fully sufficient to deposit them under /pub/suse/i386/10.1/SUSE-Linux10.1-Beta3-Extra/, just like you did with /pub/suse/i386/10.1/SUSE-Linux10.1-Beta2-Extra/.

You will miss a lot of bug reports if you keep your beta testers away from using their hardware with the beta versions.

Comment 5 Forgotten User N1m2whZ-xl 2006-02-07 17:27:14 UTC
There is nothing "resolved" - don't you see that lots of beta testers get excluded from testing if kernel-nongpl is not available?
Comment 6 Andreas Jaeger 2006-02-07 20:06:16 UTC
Eberhard, I see this.  But speaking with the Linux kernel developers I hear the following as well:

Most developers of the kernel community consider non-GPL kernel modules
to be infringing on their copyright.  Novell does respect this position
and refrains from distributing non-GPL kernel modules for future products.
Novell works with vendors to supply alternative ways to provide the
functionality that was previously only available with non-GPL kernel
modules.