Re: [Madwifi-users] open source

[Imre K. <ka...@du...>]

Check the newer release on http://rt2400.sf.net . That driver is currently
under the GPL, and fully open imho.


Imre


On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Greg Chesson wrote:

> 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?
> >
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