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Re: Re: Bits from the Debian Eee PC team, summer 2008



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re all,

On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 06:36:14PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:

> Eh, yes, but kernel-module "ath5k" is still buggy (Bug #1542: cannot
> get an IP with dhcp) now for almost half a year - and no one seem to
> care.

i can confirm this is no  longer the case.  ath5k works, you can refer
to Jeff  Moe's development on freeeee, rpms published at:

http://www.freeeee.org/i386/RPMS.FREEEEE/                                      

> So I  think, its  is not  quite a good  idea, to  use "ath5k"  on an
> installation media, especially for non experienced users.

it is  not about an  "idea", but about  using or not free  software: i
think debian developers  are so concerned about such  policy that this
cannot even be a debate.

ciao

- -- 
  Jaromil, dyne.org developer, http://jaromil.dyne.org

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