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[gNewSense-users] Hardware Compatibility
From: |
Christopher Parker |
Subject: |
[gNewSense-users] Hardware Compatibility |
Date: |
Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:15:59 -0400 |
Hello,
During the Associate Membership meeting this past weekend, it was
announced that the Free Software Foundation will be using gNewSense to
help build a central database of hardware that has free drivers.
I've recently installed gNewSense 1.1 on my Gateway Solo 5300 laptop
(specs page at
http://support.gateway.com/support/manlib/Notebooks/Solo5300/8508144/8508144.htm
), replacing Ubuntu Edgy. So far, so good. However, I've noticed two
hardware issues:
1. The onboard Xircom modem does not work. Winmodem?
2. My D-Link WNA-2330 PCMCIA 802.11g card (Atheros chipset) does not
work. Big shocker there (proprietary madwifi HAL).
I've not yet been able to test the ACPI/APM functionality of my laptop.
I also noticed that the device manager in GNOME still has the Ubuntu
branding on it. I haven't had the chance to upgrade any packages yet,
so this might be a non-issue at this point for all I know.
Is there a more appropriate place to report findings such as these?
Should I be sending this info to John Sullivan directly?
Thank you.
--
Christopher C. Parker Associate Member #795
address@hidden Free Software Foundation
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