From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: "Gábor Stefanik" <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>
Cc: Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com>,
"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>,
Tobias Schlemmer <keinstein_junior@gmx.net>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rtl8187b Problem with tx level
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:38:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A9C42C5.6050400@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <69e28c910908311418l7f033b5bp7a9b443cd253304@mail.gmail.com>
Gábor Stefanik wrote:
>
> The driver is not actually closed-source; they just don't provide any
> drivers on their site anymore, instead they send their reference
> drivers to OEMs, expecting the OEMs to release their own versions
> (with sources - most vendors who do release Linux drivers in fact only
> release sources, without binaries). The reason for this appears to be
> that Realtek now encourages vendors to sell RTL81xx wireless chips
> with modified USB IDs. (Or are you seeing a binary-only driver on
> realtek.com.tw? That would definitely be a GPL violation, given that
> they use a modified version of the GPLed libipw stack.)
No driver at all. I looked at the Toshiba site, but found only Windows
drivers. Which OEM has the driver available?
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-31 21:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-30 20:44 rtl8187b Problem with tx level Tobias Schlemmer
2009-08-30 23:00 ` Larry Finger
2009-08-31 9:59 ` Tobias Schlemmer
2009-08-31 15:49 ` Larry Finger
2009-08-31 16:51 ` Tobias Schlemmer
2009-08-31 17:55 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2009-08-31 18:02 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-31 18:32 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2009-08-31 18:41 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-31 18:57 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2009-08-31 21:10 ` Larry Finger
2009-08-31 21:18 ` Gábor Stefanik
2009-08-31 21:38 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2009-08-31 23:16 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2009-09-01 13:13 ` John W. Linville
2009-09-01 16:37 ` Larry Finger
2009-09-02 10:28 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2009-08-31 23:37 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-31 23:46 ` Gábor Stefanik
2009-08-31 23:56 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-09-01 0:21 ` Greg KH
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