WIRELES

[Dan Williams]

On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 14:59 -0400, Thomas J. Baker wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 19:02 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > On 9/28/06, Thomas J. Baker <tjb at unh.edu> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 10:42 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > > > Dan
> > > >
> > > > [1] except for Atheros chipsets, which can't go into the kernel until
> > > > they stop being a**es and deal with the binary-linked-in-blob.  Intel
> > > > seems to have a much better path to upstream acceptance with ipw3945
> > > > than Atheros could ever manage.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Any idea how soon the ipw3945 will be included or what that status of it
> > > is?
> > 
> > I'm using the ipw3945 driver from atrpms without issue.
> > 
> > Peter
> > 
> 
> I successfully use John Linville's kernel and the binary blobs from
> ipw3945.sf.net but it would be much nicer to have it in the standard
> kernel with the binary blobs from the repository that is not to be
> named.

Right; push the Intel developers to engage the kernel, and get ipw3945
upstream in the kernel.  Right now there's some resistance because of
the binary user-space regulatory daemon that the driver requires.  Once
that gets worked out, I'd suppose it will go upstream fairly quickly.

Dan

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