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Re: ipw2100: firmware problem

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Subject: Re: ipw2100: firmware problem
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 23:20:20 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Denis Vlasenko <vda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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 use prism54 cards in my laptops for this reason.

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.

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