From: Jim Crilly <jim@why.dont.jablowme.net>
To: Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
jketreno@linux.intel.com, pavel@ucw.cz, jgarzik@pobox.com,
netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
ipw2100-admin@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: ipw2100: firmware problem
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 23:51:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050610035127.GH1637@mail> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200506090930.22274.vda@ilport.com.ua>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-10 3:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-08 14:23 ipw2100: firmware problem Pavel Machek
2005-06-08 14:44 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-08 14:56 ` Jirka Bohac
2005-06-08 16:29 ` Pavel Machek
2005-06-21 7:42 ` Simon Kelley
2005-06-21 8:29 ` Feyd
2005-06-21 8:46 ` Simon Kelley
2005-06-08 15:05 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-06-08 15:23 ` Jiri Benc
2005-06-09 6:09 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-09 6:16 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-09 6:25 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-09 6:28 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-09 6:37 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-09 8:36 ` Wichert Akkerman
2005-06-09 10:42 ` Pavel Machek
2005-06-09 19:53 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-09 21:01 ` James Ketrenos
2005-06-09 21:11 ` Pavel Machek
2005-06-09 21:15 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-06-09 22:11 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-10 2:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-10 2:46 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-06-10 9:00 ` Pavel Machek
2005-06-10 13:00 ` John Stoffel
2005-06-10 13:33 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-06-09 14:31 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-06-10 6:56 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-10 13:23 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-06-10 20:26 ` Lee Revell
2005-06-10 21:00 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-06-10 21:07 ` Lee Revell
2005-06-13 16:42 ` Jan Rychter
2005-06-11 12:44 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-08 17:10 ` James Ketrenos
2005-06-08 19:43 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-08 19:49 ` Dave Jones
2005-06-08 19:54 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-09 6:03 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-09 6:10 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-09 6:17 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-09 6:20 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-09 6:30 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-09 6:35 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-10 3:51 ` Jim Crilly [this message]
2005-06-09 6:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-09 6:13 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-09 6:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-08 16:58 ` James Ketrenos
2005-06-08 21:27 ` Pavel Machek
2005-06-08 21:46 ` James Ketrenos
2005-06-08 22:34 ` Pavel Machek
2005-06-09 3:33 ` Zhu Yi
2005-06-09 10:56 ` Pavel Machek
2005-06-09 13:56 ` Andi Kleen
2005-06-09 21:12 ` Olivier Galibert
2005-06-09 23:13 ` Jeff Garzik
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