From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Q: support for AVM Fritz! WLAN USB in kernel 2.6.25+
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:40:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080730024054.aa41729a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <488EDC63.8060700@imap.cc>
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:01:23 +0200 Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> wrote:
> Commit 782e70c6fc2290a0395850e8e02583b8b62264d8, which went into
> 2.6.25, broke AVM's closed-source driver for this device:
commit 782e70c6fc2290a0395850e8e02583b8b62264d8
Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Date: Fri Jan 25 11:12:21 2008 -0600
USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only
It would.
> ID 057c:62ff AVM GmbH WLAN USB v1.1 (cdrom mode)
> ID 057c:6201 AVM GmbH WLAN USB v1.1
>
> Is there an open source alternative for that driver,
There doesn't seem to be one in-tree. But linux-usb and/or linux-wireless
might be better places to ask.
> or do systems
> with that device have to stay with kernel 2.6.24?
It seems that way.
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2008-07-29 9:01 Q: support for AVM Fritz! WLAN USB in kernel 2.6.25+ Tilman Schmidt
2008-07-30 9:40 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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