Bug #96084

[Michael]

Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 12:44 +0100, Michael wrote:
>   
>> Which prompts the question: why isn't ndiswrapper included in the Feisty CD?
>>     
>
> Well it's not all that supportable (you are at the mercy of whoever
> wrote the Windows driver) and doesn't it need the user the extract the
> Windows driver before it can be used?
>
>   
 > Well it's not all that supportable

True, but it's often the only way to get some extremely common wireless 
cards to work.

 > and doesn't it need the user the extract the Windows driver before it 
can be used?

True, but that's no excuse for not helping users with a moderate degree 
of technical literacy (surely one of Ubuntu's core constituencies) 
configure an essential piece of hardware.