From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Denis Vlasenko Subject: Re: ipw2100: firmware problem Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 09:30:22 +0300 Message-ID: <200506090930.22274.vda@ilport.com.ua> References: <200506090903.49295.vda@ilport.com.ua> <200506090917.23853.vda@ilport.com.ua> <20050608.232020.115912376.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jketreno@linux.intel.com, pavel@ucw.cz, jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ipw2100-admin@linux.intel.com Return-path: To: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20050608.232020.115912376.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thursday 09 June 2005 09:20, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Denis Vlasenko > 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. -- vda