From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262246AbVFIGWz (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jun 2005 02:22:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262294AbVFIGUs (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jun 2005 02:20:48 -0400 Received: from dsl027-180-168.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.168]:10471 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262300AbVFIGUc (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jun 2005 02:20:32 -0400 Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 23:20:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20050608.232020.115912376.davem@davemloft.net> To: vda@ilport.com.ua Cc: jketreno@linux.intel.com, pavel@ucw.cz, jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ipw2100-admin@linux.intel.com Subject: Re: ipw2100: firmware problem From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <200506090917.23853.vda@ilport.com.ua> References: <200506090903.49295.vda@ilport.com.ua> <20050608.231045.48808548.davem@davemloft.net> <200506090917.23853.vda@ilport.com.ua> X-Mailer: Mew version 3.3 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Denis Vlasenko Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 09:17:23 +0300 > Sadly, realities are such that we have to live somehow > with closed-source firmware. You have a choice, buy products from friendly vendors. I use prism54 cards in my laptops for this reason. If you like a vendor's products who aren't friendly, try to voice intelligently your opinion to them as to why users will benefit from them fixing the firmware situation.