Q: support for AVM Fritz! WLAN USB in kernel 2.6.25+

Q: support for AVM Fritz! WLAN USB in kernel 2.6.25+

[Tilman Schmidt]

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Commit 782e70c6fc2290a0395850e8e02583b8b62264d8, which went into
2.6.25, broke AVM's closed-source driver for this device:

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, or do systems
with that device have to stay with kernel 2.6.24?

Thanks,
Tilman

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Re: Q: support for AVM Fritz! WLAN USB in kernel 2.6.25+

[Andrew Morton]

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.