RE: ipw2100: firmware problem

["Alejandro Bonilla" <abonilla@linuxwireless.org>]

> > Riiiight. It could be. Or it could be that no where in the 
> world I have seen
> > something where the device would be disabled by default 
> without notifying
> > the user. Why would you Mute the driver? Is the driver that 
> bad, that the
> > developers would rather Mute the sound card, just in case 
> if the sound cards
> > starts making noises and shit when the driver is loaded?
> > 
> 
> Userspace should handle it, doing this in the kernel is bloat.

I Agreed to this since 8 AM.

> 
> My Debian system initializes the mixer settings to a sane state just
> fine when the alsasound init script is run.  Maybe you need a better
> distro.
I use Debian.
> 
> Users who compile ALSA from source are expected to know what they are
> doing.  And, if you watch the "make install" output, it 
> prints a big fat
> warning that all mixer controls are muted by default.

Who said I did it from source?

> 
> > You are moving to another topic. Let's drop it.
> 
> Agreed, but it was your OT rant that changed the topic...
> 
> Lee
dropped.
.Alejandro