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Re: ipw2100: firmware problem

To: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: ipw2100: firmware problem
From: Denis Vlasenko <vda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 09:30:22 +0300
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On Thursday 09 June 2005 09:20, David S. Miller wrote:
> 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 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


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