I don't know much about the intel one except that I wouldn't be surprised it downloaded the firmware into the chipset. I Broadcom also does this as well as TI. There is an opensource version of the TI driver.
Getting attention from a Chipset manufacturer is another story. Marty > Message: 7 > Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:38:38 -0700 > From: dimitris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Intel's laptop-oriented chips have GPL drivers, albeit with binary > modules - but not *kernel* binary modules. > > The 3945abg driver uses a binary userspace daemon and a binary on-chip > microcode: > > http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/ > > The 2200bg/2945abg driver relies on a binary on-chip firmware: > > http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/ > > The latter one is in the mainline kernel too. > > D. _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
