Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:40:54 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Q: support for AVM Fritz! WLAN USB in kernel 2.6.25+ |
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On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:01:23 +0200 Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> wrote:
> Commit 782e70c6fc2290a0395850e8e02583b8b62264d8, which went into > 2.6.25, broke AVM's closed-source driver for this device:
commit 782e70c6fc2290a0395850e8e02583b8b62264d8 Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Date: Fri Jan 25 11:12:21 2008 -0600
USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only
It would.
> ID 057c:62ff AVM GmbH WLAN USB v1.1 (cdrom mode) > ID 057c:6201 AVM GmbH WLAN USB v1.1 > > Is there an open source alternative for that driver,
There doesn't seem to be one in-tree. But linux-usb and/or linux-wireless might be better places to ask.
> or do systems > with that device have to stay with kernel 2.6.24?
It seems that way.
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