Description of problem: NDISwrapper is a critical piece of software, used for running hardware which has no native Linux support by means of Windows drivers. It acts like a wrapper between Linux kernel and proprietary software drivers. This is especially important for the vast majority of laptops or other "special" hardware that will be totally disabled otherwise. No NDISwrapper package specially crafted for Fedora 7/8 exist in the native repository; however, there are RPM packages at Livna, DAG or Dries repositories - not all of them work OK. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 7.92 + updates as of October 12, 2007. How reproducible: Always. Actual results: There is no NDISwrapper package in the official Fedora repository. Expected results: Please include a NDISwrapper RPM package specially crafted for the most current version of Fedora. Additional info: http://dries.ulyssis.org/rpm/packages/dkms-ndiswrapper/info.html
NDISwrapper is of dubious legality from a licensing standpoint, conflicts badly with kernel infrastructure such as 4k stacks, and leaves users in a situation where any bugs in the Windows drivers can't actually be fixed. It is not suitable for Fedora, and actually should probably be added to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems