Re: Please suggest a fedora core 4 compatible wireless card

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• Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 15:06:35 -0800
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On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 13:17 -0800, Douglas Phillipson wrote:

> 
> All I had to do was "yum install ipw2200-firmware".  I wish this had 
> been in a FAQ somewhere.  Why doesn't Fedora ship with the firmware if 
> the driver is in the Kernel?

Because the driver is GPL and thus under license Fedora can distribute.
The firmware is not.

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