Mateusz Berezecki wrote:
Daniel J Blueman <[email protected]> wrote:
->
-> There is a good chance the rt2x00 driver will get into the kernel tree
-> in time, since there is no firmware to upload - Ralink Tech
-> (www.ralink.com.tw) took a design decision to incorporate the firmware
-> into an EEPROM on-board, allowing their driver to be GPL'd, and the
-> rt2x00 is a Linux-specific rewrite which is stabilising well.
the same applies to atheros. they got stuff either in eeprom or in
driver. no firmware necessary.
there is an ongoing project for atheros cards.
work in progress located at http://mateusz.agrest.org/atheros/
There is still the open question of whether this is legal enough to
include in the kernel :(
I really would have preferred a cleanroom approach, like that taken by
the forcedeth driver authors.
Jeff
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