Hello, During the Associate Membership meeting this past weekend, it was announced that the Free Software Foundation will be using gNewSense to help build a central database of hardware that has free drivers.
I've recently installed gNewSense 1.1 on my Gateway Solo 5300 laptop (specs page at http://support.gateway.com/support/manlib/Notebooks/Solo5300/8508144/8508144.htm ), replacing Ubuntu Edgy. So far, so good. However, I've noticed two hardware issues: 1. The onboard Xircom modem does not work. Winmodem? 2. My D-Link WNA-2330 PCMCIA 802.11g card (Atheros chipset) does not work. Big shocker there (proprietary madwifi HAL). I've not yet been able to test the ACPI/APM functionality of my laptop. I also noticed that the device manager in GNOME still has the Ubuntu branding on it. I haven't had the chance to upgrade any packages yet, so this might be a non-issue at this point for all I know. Is there a more appropriate place to report findings such as these? Should I be sending this info to John Sullivan directly? Thank you. -- Christopher C. Parker Associate Member #795 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free Software Foundation _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
