Re: Moving Wireless Tools etc to Core
Posted: 9. Jul 2010, 11:30
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Re: Moving Wireless Tools etc to Core
Posted: 9. Jul 2010, 11:53
LOL, for a while I thought I was seeing double. Oh, wait. I was!
Re: Moving Wireless Tools etc to Core
Posted: 9. Jul 2010, 21:45
Oh well, at least I managed to amuse 
Re: Moving Wireless Tools etc to Core
Posted: 20. Aug 2010, 06:27
Sure, but IMHO that wireless in SalixOS (and on almost every distro) should be just as pwatk described.Shador wrote:In fact I think I have no single desktop here with wireless and I can't think right now about anyone except you who has.
IMHO wireless is a waste for desktop PCs. Usually you have the possibilities to use wires and they are just so much faster, stable and responsive than wireless, especiall gigabit ethernet. <3
Agreed, but my main reason for doing so is because radiation, maybe I'm just paranoid.Shador wrote:Actually I connect my laptop by wire whenever possible even more since I got gigabit ethernet.
You sure did!pwatk wrote:Oh well, at least I managed to amuse
Re: Moving Wireless Tools etc to Core
Posted: 20. Aug 2010, 10:29
Maybe there is some not-GPLed firmware stuff around? I remember that some was available only as binaries.
Re: Moving Wireless Tools etc to Core
Posted: 20. Aug 2010, 10:45
I only wanted to move the existing firmware packages plus wireless-tools and wpa_supplicant to core from full.
Why do you want non-GPL firmware e.g. b43, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't/couldn't be included on the disc or am I missing something here?
Why do you want non-GPL firmware e.g. b43, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't/couldn't be included on the disc or am I missing something here?
Re: Moving Wireless Tools etc to Core
Posted: 20. Aug 2010, 10:51
No, you're not.pwatk wrote:Why do you want non-GPL firmware e.g. b43, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't/couldn't be included on the disc or am I missing something here?
Re: Moving Wireless Tools etc to Core
Posted: 20. Aug 2010, 10:57
I didn't think so.
I considered writing my slkbuild's for the b43 stuff as network install scripts but that seamed counter productive (chicken = egg = chicken)
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I considered writing my slkbuild's for the b43 stuff as network install scripts but that seamed counter productive (chicken = egg = chicken)
.Re: Moving Wireless Tools etc to Core
Posted: 20. Aug 2010, 11:03
Anyway, now that the installation CD can be used as a repository, anyone that wants wireless packages can install them on "core" and "basic" installations without needing an internet connection in the first place.
Re: Moving Wireless Tools etc to Core
Posted: 20. Aug 2010, 11:53
++gapan wrote:Anyway, now that the installation CD can be used as a repository, anyone that wants wireless packages can install them on "core" and "basic" installations without needing an internet connection in the first place.