Re: Embedded Linux and Amateur Radio

[IT3 Stuart Blake Tener <teners@bh90210.net>]

Quoting Hamish Moffatt <hamish@cloud.net.au>:
> On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 09:36:02PM +0200, Ralf Baechle DL5RB wrote:

[...verbiage clipped in the name of brevity...]

>
> I don't know if the WRT54GS could be upgraded to 2.6; I think it has
> some proprietary (binary-only) drivers for the Broadcom wifi chipset.

I am aware that the WRT54GS (and many other of the some several products that
Linksys makes) use a Linux Kernel for their firwmare. However, I have not yet
secured time to review the released source code for these kernels. If the Wifi
drivers for the Broadcom Wifi adapter inclusive to a particular Linksys product
are something other than a loadable module (supplied presumably in binary format
only), i.e. are written into the kernel, and Linksys has not released the kernel
inclusive of said source code for the Broadcom driver, then I would contend that
their is a potential cause of action to force Linksys to release the Broadcom
Wifi driver source code!

Or are you saying that the Broadcom drivers are being supplied as loadable
modules in binary form?

I do not own a 54GS, and therefore have not reviewed the source code and
firmware releases.

Just some food for thought!


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