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    SubjectRe: ipw2100: firmware problem
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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.
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    vda

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