Bug 148199 - Atheros WLAN support missing
Summary: Atheros WLAN support missing
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: SUSE Linux 10.1
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Mobile Devices (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 3
Hardware: x86-64 Other
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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Assignee: Andreas Jaeger
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Reported: 2006-02-04 01:55 UTC by Forgotten User N1m2whZ-xl
Modified: 2006-02-07 20:06 UTC (History)
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Found By: Beta-Customer
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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.
> 

                   "Woran arbeiten Sie?" wurde Herr K. gefragt:
                   "Ich habe viele Muehe, ich bereite gerade
                    meinen naechsten Irrtum vor."
                                   Bertolt Brecht: Geschichten
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.