On Thursday 20 November 2008, Kamil Dzida wrote: > Hello, for some time I have been interested in situation of firmware > for Linux drivers. I found something interesting. > > Some time ago I found that Agree firmware for orinoco driver was > submitted to linux-firmware tree. From driver documentation > (http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/orinoco) I found that > orinoco driver also works with Symbol "Spectrum24" chipset. The > documentation states that firmware for that chipset is only available > by cutting it from Windows or Apple drivers (like Broadcom microcode). > Fortunately I found that it is not true. The firmware binary blobs for > Spectrum24 can be found on NetBSD and OpenBSD servers under BSD > license. Both have build in this firmware in their operating systems. > Does it support WPA and/or WPA2? Have you tested this firmware with orinoco driver? Thank you! > > This statement can be found in OpenBSD CVS: > > from netbsd: > Generated from the firmware binaries for T3 series CF adapter. > Obtained from Tim Gardner <timg@xxxxxxx> who developed the Linux driver. > And approved by Brad Lefore <blefore@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> to redistribute it > with BSD license. > > (http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/microcode/symbol/esecsym?sortby=rev) > > This means that the only difference between firmware that Linux uses > and the *BSD firmware is that BSD people successfully negotiated > license change to BSD. Theoretically by simple drag and dropping the > files from OpenBSD/NetBSD to linux-firmware tree and renaming the > files will allow Linux users out of the box support of Symbol cards > without any firmware extraction tools. Just in case, contacting Mr. > Lefore of Symbol first would be also recommended. > > I hope this information will be helpful for orinoco driver development. > > > OpenBSD resources: > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/microcode/symbol/?sortby=rev#dirlist > > and licence: > > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/microcode/symbol/symbol-license?rev=1.4;content-type=text%2Fplain;sortby=rev > > NetBSD resources: > http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/microcode/wi/?only_with_tag=MAIN > -- > 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 > >
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