Re: ipw2100: firmware problem

Jim Crilly
2005-06-10T03:53:57Z

On 06/09/05 09:30:22AM +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> 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.

Ralink cards don't require any binary firmware. I got one of the Hawking
Tech pcmcia cards off the shelf at a local CompUSA store and the card
was a good $20 cheaper than a Linksys card. So far I haven't had any
problems with the card or the driver.

A list of Ralink hardware and drivers can be found at
http://ralink.rapla.net/

> vda
>

Jim.