<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/3/13, dimitris <<a href="mailto:dimitris@gmail.com">dimitris@gmail.com</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Intel's laptop-oriented chips have GPL drivers, albeit with binary<br>modules - but not *kernel* binary modules.<br><br>The 3945abg driver uses a binary userspace daemon and a binary on-chip<br>microcode:<br><br><a href="http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/">
http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/</a><br><br>The 2200bg/2945abg driver relies on a binary on-chip firmware:<br><br><a href="http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/">http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/</a><br><br>The latter one is in the mainline kernel too.
<br><br>D.<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>OpenMoko community mailing list<br><a href="mailto:community@lists.openmoko.org">community@lists.openmoko.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community">
http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community</a><br></blockquote></div><br><span>A better option would be to use one of the chipset that has runtime firmware that (even) OpenBSD is allowed to distribute.<br><br>You'll find a good article on the problems with binary firmwares on
<a href="http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/293">http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/293</a><br><br>For a round up:<br><br>atu (4) - Atmel AT76C50x USB IEEE 802.11b wireless network device<br>ral (4) - Ralink Technology IEEE
802.11a/b/g wireless network device (2nd gen 802.11 Ralink)<br>rum (4) - Ralink Technology USB IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless network device<br>zyd (4) - Zydas ZD1211 USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network deviceMarcin Juszkiewicz already mentioned some of them.
<br><br>Hans</span><span id="_user_openembedded@hrw.one.pl" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);"><br></span>