On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 2:35 AM, Ben Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Besides, no Eee model that I know of uses an Atheros N chipset, so ath9k > will not work for them. Models 901, 1000 and 1000H use Ralink rt2860, > as indicated in the table. While the driver is GPL'd, unfortunately it > embeds a non-free firmware. There is no 100% open source solution for > these devices yet. I believe there is work in progress in > compat-wireless, but nothing that works yet. Does it use a binary firmware (running on the device memory and controller) or a binary blob running on the host CPU? In the former case, I'm afraid we'll have to live with that (as we do with a lot of other drivers, most of which are included in the kernel). Not that I live this as a terrible ethical problem: by law wireless hardware producers have to enforce FCC regulations beyond the possibility of intervention by the user; they do this via a binary firmware loaded at runtime, would have it been so different if they were hardcoding the regulations in the hardware or they used a persistent firmware (like most of us have in their CD-writer)? Luca _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
