On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 06:31:21PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 03:26:54PM -0700, Denis Leroy wrote:
> >Maybe it's time to start the brainstorming for Fedora Core 5 and Fedora
> >Extras 5 - what major features are you willing to put effort into?
> I'd like to see better laptop support, in particular some sort of
> Profile support as well as better wireless support.
Profiles: Isn't this the aim of sabayon (sp?)
Better wireless support: The upstream drivers are slowly starting
to converge to a point of sanity. Ie, a common ieee80211 core
which drivers share, rather than implementing their own variants
of in each driver with different userspace semantics. So FC5 will
get better through this work, but it probably won't be 'perfect'
for quite a while just due to the sheer volume of work needed
to be done to fix up some of the mess in that part of the kernel.
BTW, on a related matter I had trouble getting my laptop's prism54
card working when trying FC4T3 on it. As usual, I had to install,
then throw the binary firmware into /lib/firmware and then I _would_
have expected the card to "just work" on insertion. But it didn't.
I had to play around to get it recognized at all. First, the system
just ignored the card on insert for whatever reason.
Can someone tell me how this is _supposed_ to work? Having to install
the binary myself is bad enough (yes, I know the politics around this
so I won't start a debate over that *g*), but I'd expect it to work
then... am I asking too much?
Best regards,
Daniel
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