On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 09:01 +1100, Julian Calaby wrote: > > Well, that explains why the "Libertas" parts supported by the current > > kernel require firmware and why the ndiswrapper driver I'm using > > doesn't. > > The 8335 still requires firmware. Lots of the windows drivers embed the > firmware into the .sys or .dll files, whereas on Linux embedding > firmware into the driver is quite frowned upon. Yeah, I discovered that the mrv8k driver still requires firmware, despite there being no actual file in the windows driver that I can point to as being the firmware image. Thanks, -- Julian Calaby Email: julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
