From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-ew0-f46.google.com ([209.85.215.46]:44474 "EHLO mail-ew0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751337Ab1GONHQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jul 2011 09:07:16 -0400 Received: by mail-ew0-f46.google.com with SMTP id 4so637540ewy.19 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 06:07:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Christian Lamparter To: Roman Shishkin Subject: Re: Binary for carl9170 Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:09:22 +0200 Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org References: <201107141119.08932.chunkeey@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Message-Id: <201107151509.23258.chunkeey@googlemail.com> (sfid-20110715_150721_483414_9D4D727A) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Friday 15 July 2011 14:31:07 Roman Shishkin wrote: > Source code avaliable of course, but I need just the binary of 1.9.4. > Probably lot of casual linux users needs this binary too :) Oh no, the firmware is supposed to be shipped by the distribution and not "installed by hand". After all, they provide compiled and fully tested packages for kernel+driver+userland and in doing so verify that no malicious code compromises the system's security. > I want to check new version at first rather than discuss about my > dongles bug. wait... how come you know that the new version might fix a bug? Furthermore, how do you know that it's a bug in the first place, what's your reference and how do you test it? Regards, Chr