Hi On Wednesday 16 September 2009, Markus Becker wrote: > Hello, > > is the information on the page > http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/zd1211rw about the Debian > firmware package still true? > > "Firmware is pulled from userspace, get the files here. > Debian users beware: don't use the the zd1211-firmware package, as this is for > Debian's fork of the vendor-based driver" > > The current debian package contains the same files as in the link > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=129083 zd1211-firmware (2.16.0.0-0.1) unstable; urgency=low * NMU [...] * Use symlink farm to provide the firmware in the locations used by the zd1211rw in-kernel driver, as well as the zd1211 extra-kernel driver. Closes: #383604 * Should be suitable for etch release now. Closes: #411912 [...] -- Joey Hess <joeyh@xxxxxxxxxx> Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:09:09 -0500 (the symlink farm is gone by now and the the package only keeps compatibility with in-kernel zd1211rw, all what's left is the version number derived from the vendor-based driver) In other words, the past two major Debian releases (shipping with kernel 2.6.18/ etch and 2.6.26/ lenny respectively) had a working firmware package available from the non-free section. Kernel 2.6.18, which was the first to ship with zd1211rw, was released on Tue, Sep 19 20:42:06 2006 -0700, so the advice pointing at a broken firmware package in Debian's unreleased branches was true for roughly 4 months and never affected a released version (sarge shipped with kernel 2.6.8, etch with 2.6.18 and zd1211-firmware 2.16.0.0-0.1). Regards Stefan Lippers-Hollmann -- 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
