Crossroads

[Martin Lefkowitz]

I don't know much about the intel one except that I wouldn't be
surprised it downloaded the firmware into the chipset.  I Broadcom also
does this as well as TI.  There is an opensource version of the TI driver.

Getting attention from a Chipset manufacturer is another story.

Marty


> Message: 7
> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:38:38 -0700
> From: dimitris <dimitris at gmail.com>
>
>
> Intel's laptop-oriented chips have GPL drivers, albeit with binary
> modules - but not *kernel* binary modules.
>
> The 3945abg driver uses a binary userspace daemon and a binary on-chip
> microcode:
>
> http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/
>
> The 2200bg/2945abg driver relies on a binary on-chip firmware:
>
> http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/
>
> The latter one is in the mainline kernel too.
>
> D.