Direction of wireless networking in Fedora ( was RE: Wireless update to ifup and network-functions )

Jonathan Andrews jon at jonshouse.co.uk
Thu Sep 16 22:31:34 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 22:04, Farkas Levente wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 01:29:29PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > 
> >>Unfortunately, I don't think we can ship MADwifi due to the HAL.  Does
> >>Debian ship it in debian-free?  Because if they do, then Fedora will
> >>almost definitely be able to as well.
> > 
> > 
> > MAdwifi doesn't meet the free software requirements for Fedora, which isn't
> > to say it can't be in a third party repository. Within the limits of
> > their interpretation of the FCC rules and their hardware they've done about
> > as much as they can however.
> 
> yes! and that's the point here, in this case no one can ship any driver 
> for wireless devices with atheros chipset which is more free than 
> madwifi. what is the solution (other than use other device:-)?

Im not saying its easy !!! but couldn't we errrr reverse engineer the
firmware ? :-)

Does anyone know is the firmware just the control part of the protocol
stack or is it the full modulator demodulator for the waveforms on the
atheros ?

Jon








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