On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 22:04, Farkas Levente wrote:
Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 01:29:29PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
>
>>Unfortunately, I don't think we can ship MADwifi due to the HAL. Does
>>Debian ship it in debian-free? Because if they do, then Fedora will
>>almost definitely be able to as well.
>
>
> MAdwifi doesn't meet the free software requirements for Fedora, which isn't
> to say it can't be in a third party repository. Within the limits of
> their interpretation of the FCC rules and their hardware they've done about
> as much as they can however.
yes! and that's the point here, in this case no one can ship any driver
for wireless devices with atheros chipset which is more free than
madwifi. what is the solution (other than use other device:-)?
Im not saying its easy !!! but couldn't we errrr reverse engineer the
firmware ? :-)
Does anyone know is the firmware just the control part of the protocol
stack or is it the full modulator demodulator for the waveforms on the
atheros ?
Jon