Re: ipw2100: firmware problem

Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-09T06:31:49Z

On Thursday 09 June 2005 09:20, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>
> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 09:17:23 +0300
>
> > Sadly, realities are such that we have to live somehow
> > with closed-source firmware.
>
> You have a choice, buy products from friendly vendors.

I am trying! So far, I have Prism2.5, Prism54
and acx111 cards, and all of them require closed binary fw.

> I use prism54 cards in my laptops for this reason.

?! As far as I remember, it needs a fw and fw is not open...
did that change recently?

> If you like a vendor's products who aren't friendly, try
> to voice intelligently your opinion to them as to why users
> will benefit from them fixing the firmware situation.
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vda