ndiswrapper in cd

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 10:42:56AM -0500, Tres Seaver wrote:

> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> | ndiswrapper-utils will be available on the Hoary installation CD (it
> should
> | appear on the next daily install CD).  That said, it is far from being the
> | most commonly used driver for wireless devices; indeed a wide variety of
> | wireless hardware works out of the box with Ubuntu.
> 
> 
> The other issue with ndiswrapper at install time is that it is useless
> without the actual NDIS Windows driver -- I can't see Ubuntu shipping
> any reasonable subset of those!  Or would you plan to make the user put
> the correct driver onto a floppy before install?

If the system requires ndiswrapper, then we accept that this is something
that an expert user will do by hand, and is not something that we attempt to
support "out of the box".  The utilities are provided on the CD as a
convenience, because it is often the case that the only network connectivity
available is via ndiswrapper, and that would mean obtaining a copy of the
ndiswrapper-utils .deb via some other means (such as a floppy or DVD).

The necessary driver can usually be found on the CD which is included with
the device, or from a Windows installation already on the system.

-- 
 - mdz