Hi > I would expect it to be in he same class as prism54 which will only work with > binary-only firmware. That is in the standard Sarge kernel; I just checked. firmware is very different from proprietary software. read lkml discussions and debian legal discussions regarding this. afaik the debian guidelines have been clarified to make it apply for everything thats distributed with debian rather than just software and that includes fonts, firmware, documentations and images. so the next release of debian is likely going to ship without these firmware stuff and have it only in the contrib repository -- Regards, Rahul Sundaram