eric wrote:
> Now that Atheros is the new owner of Zydas, are they loosening up the
> restrictions on their source code?
Atheros are a much more closed company. They have never released an open
source driver and do not offer advice to the people maintaining their
closed source crap.
ZyDAS tell
Daniel Drake wrote:
> Matthieu CASTET wrote:
>
>> It is not really GPL as GPL ask to deliver the preferred form for
>> modification and I don't think Zydas write their firmware in hexa ;)
>>
> The GPL doesn't place restrictions on what can and can't be licensed.
> The firmware *is* GPL, ev
Daniel Drake wrote:
> eric magaoay wrote:
>> OK, I just installed Ubuntu 6.10 RC1 (edgy). zd1211rw/firmware are
>> included in the kernel (2.6.17-10-generic) and is fully functional
>> without having to download the firmware from
>> http://www.deine-taler.de. (thumbs up for Ubuntu)
> They don't
eric magaoay wrote:
> OK, I just installed Ubuntu 6.10 RC1 (edgy). zd1211rw/firmware are
> included in the kernel (2.6.17-10-generic) and is fully functional
> without having to download the firmware from http://www.deine-taler.de.
> (thumbs up for Ubuntu)
They don't ship the firmware in the ke
Matthieu CASTET wrote:
> It is not really GPL as GPL ask to deliver the preferred form for
> modification and I don't think Zydas write their firmware in hexa ;)
The GPL doesn't place restrictions on what can and can't be licensed.
The firmware *is* GPL, even though it is hex and is kinda silly.
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:25:46 -0400, Daniel Drake wrote:
> The firmware is not rewritten and we don't know the instruction format.
> The vendor firmware is GPL, could be included in the kernel, but instead
> we pull it from userspace as this is more sensible and doesn't tie a
> firmware version
Daniel Drake wrote:
>
> The firmware is not rewritten and we don't know the instruction
> format. The vendor firmware is GPL, could be included in the kernel,
> but instead we pull it from userspace as this is more sensible and
> doesn't tie a firmware version to a driver version.
>
OK, I just i
eric magaoay wrote:
> I have a question regarding the zd1211rw firmware. Is it supposed to be
> included within the latest stock kernel (I'm using latest kernel
> development version of Fedora Core 6 - soon to be release -
> 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-xen) or does it require user/distribution download an
hi,
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:40:19 -0400, eric magaoay wrote:
> I have a question regarding the zd1211rw firmware. Is it supposed to be
> included within the latest stock kernel (I'm using latest kernel
> development version of Fedora Core 6 - soon to be release -
> 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-xen) or doe
