wireless networks

[Daniel Stone]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 02:01:50PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 01:07:46PM -0700, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > You have a Prism54, Intersil ISL3890 chipset. Get the appropriate
> > firmware (it's on the page linked to from prism54.org -
> > http://some.where/~mcgrof/firmware/ IIRC), and put it in the hotplug
> > directory and you're away. If you're still having troubles, pasting the
> > output of dmesg may help.
> 
> Is this firmware redistributable?  If so, please package it up.

Do you mean 'will Intersil sue us', or 'do we have a leg to stand on if
someone points this out'? It's one of the situations where ISL OKed the
redistribution, but won't put anything down on paper (including a
licence). Same reason why we don't have any S3TC support in mainline.

-- 
Daniel Stone                                              <daniel at fooishbar.org>
"The programs are documented fully by _The Rise and Fall of a Fooish Bar_,
available by the Info system." -- debian/manpage.sgml.ex, dh_make template
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