Re: [Madwifi-users] open source
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From: Greg C. <ma...@at...> - 2004-06-09 15:42:11
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Interesting question. I just looked at their driver (RT2400STA-Linux-1.3.0.2). Doesn't look open source to me. They provide a directory for several distributions: fedora, mandrake, redhat, slackware, and suse. Within each directory there are object files such as these: redhat redhat/2.4.18-14 redhat/2.4.18-14/rt2500.o redhat/2.4.18-3 redhat/2.4.18-3/rt2500.o redhat/2.4.20-8 redhat/2.4.20-8/rt2500.o redhat/2.4.7-10 redhat/2.4.7-10/rt2500.o Those object files range in size from 170K to 279K depending on which distro and which kernel version. Couldn't find any ".c" or ".h" files anywhere. Maybe I missed something or picked up the wrong tar file. Apologies if I made that mistake. This particular download is a binary-only driver. If you find any source code, see if you can locate the place where it sets the freq and or power. Then you'll have an answer to the original question. g Bob Lockie wrote: > Why is RALink able to open source the driver for the RT2400 chipset and > soon the RT2500? > > Is there something in the hardware that restricts the frequencies that > the chip can communicate on? > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: GNOME Foundation > Hackers Unite! GUADEC: The world's #1 Open Source Desktop Event. > GNOME Users and Developers European Conference, 28-30th June in Norway > http://2004/guadec.org > _______________________________________________ > Madwifi-users mailing list > Mad...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/madwifi-users |