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

[CentOS] Wireless newtworking in CentOS 5

2007-07-13 Thread Andrew Allen
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 card ((Dell wireless 1390 Mini