-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 10:24:06AM +0900, Roman Mashak wrote: > You wrote to "Roman Mashak" <mrv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> on Tue, 3 Apr 2007 12:34:49 > +0200: > ??>> So far, the only difference I noticed is that most wireless cards > ??>> vendors supply binary firmware, which is loaded/run by driver (or just > ??>> few vendors use this technique?) > > EM> It's loaded by the standard kernel firmware loader. Any other way of > EM> loading firmware is deprecated. > What entity is usually implemented in wireless firmware? I assume something > that is vendor intellectual proprietary? Some cards need firmware for the radio, others don't, some need firmware for encryption (WEP, WPA), while others don't. It really depends on the hardware. Erik - -- They're all fools. Don't worry. Darwin may be slow, but he'll eventually get them. -- Matthew Lammers in alt.sysadmin.recovery -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGE4jM/PlVHJtIto0RAvq5AJ4zah6xgV+91KnpBRgc7/ihdg0mAQCaAw21 W8MrkjkSyNPPvHgrs4tu3Wk= =SZ0p -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
