Messages in this thread | | | From | Denis Vlasenko <> | Subject | Re: ipw2100: firmware problem | Date | Thu, 9 Jun 2005 09:30:22 +0300 |
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On Thursday 09 June 2005 09:20, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua> > Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 09:17:23 +0300 > > > Sadly, realities are such that we have to live somehow > > with closed-source firmware. > > You have a choice, buy products from friendly vendors.
I am trying! So far, I have Prism2.5, Prism54 and acx111 cards, and all of them require closed binary fw.
> I use prism54 cards in my laptops for this reason.
?! As far as I remember, it needs a fw and fw is not open... did that change recently?
> If you like a vendor's products who aren't friendly, try > to voice intelligently your opinion to them as to why users > will benefit from them fixing the firmware situation. -- vda
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