[Morphix-devel] madwifi / ndiswrapper in Morphix

[Alex de L. <al...@de...>]

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Hi all,

On the topic of including madwifi and ndiswrapper into Morphix:

- - ndiswrapper: I'm all for it. It's free, it's in Debian, and I'll
likely include it into the next base.

- - madwifi: this is in Debian non-free, and the licensing is rather murky
(part-GPL, part-closedsource). It won't be included into the base (at
least not if I can help it). Like the nvidia lkm, it should instead be
put into a separate minimodule so people can easily make their base 'pure'.

Two "buts":

- - ndiswrapper wouldn't work without non-free firmware. It might be an
idea to include these into a separate minimodule, as to not to have to
taint the base.

- - to pre-empt the 'Where the hell is the next base?' questions: the
unionfs developers are currently working very hard to get unionfs into
the mainstream kernel (they're already in the -mm tree). However, their
2.0 version does have a number of limitations (like not being able to
add branches). I'm hoping that when 2.6.21 goes gold the unionfs devs
will have a solid release for usage by Morphix. To be continued...

cheers,

Alex

Basanta shrestha wrote:
> Hi all,
> I would like to propose to the morphix developers to include "madwifi"
> wireless driver along with the morphix kernel. The very popular "atheros"
> chipset works great with this driver. I believe with this driver installed,
> atheros wifi cards will work directly out of the box in live cd. Here are
> some relevent links
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