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
