Douglas Phillipson writes: >After doing some research I discovered all I had to do was install the >firmware with yum. (yum -y install ipw2200-firmware) >Why doesn't Fedora install this with the distribution? If the driver is >in the kernel, why isn't the firmware on the CD? i can't speak to specifics, but in general a lot of firmware for various modern cards is under restrictive licenses that are incompatible with FOSS style redistribution (whether it be GPL or BSD, that is the *BSDs have the same legal issues with the licensing that Linux does.) richard
