On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 09:37:26AM -0500, Connie Sieh wrote:
> I found that "the upstream vendor" includes this firmware on their
> "extras" cd. The "extras" cd contains "licensed" software such as Java
> and flashplayer .
>
> I think it would be good if we got some of these wrapper scripts. I have
> been discussing the idea with Troy. Just need to have some make them or
> "borrow" the SuSE ones.
For ipw2x00 firmwares: If you package the firmware according to the
license (include the license where the firmware files are deposited)
there is nothing wrong with shipping it, i.e. it becomes freely
distributable. IANAL, but I asked Intel on this and they clarified it
accordingly. It was also recently discussed on the list with the same
conclusion.
You can pick-up the packages at ATrpms and rebuild them (that's what
RHEL4 did), or create a new package that will copy over LICENSE to
/lib/firmware/ipw2200-LICENSE.txt
See also
http://dl.atrpms.net/production/sources/common/atrpms/ipw2200-firmware-2.2.spec
http://dl.atrpms.net/testing/sources/common/atrpms/ipw2200-firmware.spec
(the latter is for ipw2200 >= 1.0.4. 1.0.x where x != 0 are the
interim development releases of ipw2200).
If you pick up the ATrpms' packages and want to trim anything
non-SL4 releated, just remove the creation of the compatibility
symlinks (that are needed for older hotplug/firmware loading
mechanisms).
> -Connie Sieh
>
> On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Shane Canon wrote:
>
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> >
> > This is something I've noticed SuSE does a better job at. They
> > typically include shell scripts that download and install firmware,
> > fonts, and other funky-licensed stuff.
> >
> > It would be interesting to construct a similar mechanism and put it in
> > the contrib area.
> >
> > - --Shane
> >
> > Connie Sieh wrote:
> > > Raymond,
> > >
> > > On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Raymond Rusk wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>Hi,
> > >>
> > >>To get the ipw2200 driver included with the 2.6.9-5.0.5.EL kernel to
> > >>work on my Dell Latitude D800 laptop, I found that I needed to
> > >>download and install into /lib/firmware the following files:
> > >>
> > >>ipw2200_boot.fw
> > >>ipw2200_bss.fw
> > >>ipw2200_ibss.fw
> > >>ipw2200_ucode.fw
> > >>
> > >>These files are located at
> > >>http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php.
> > >>
> > >>Are these files not included in the SL 4.0 distribution for licensing
> > >>reasons? The wireless driver can't work without them so it would be
> > >>much more convenient to have them included with the SL 4.0
> > >>distribution.
> > >
> > >
> > > I suspect so. I read the license and since you have to approve it
> > > before installing and since there is no way to do that with the current
> > > setup I assume it was not included because of this license.
> > >
> > >
> > >>Regards,
> > >>Raymond
> > >>
> > >>PS: SL 4.0 works very nicely on the Dell D800. For setting up X on
> > >>the 1920x1200 resolution WUXGA LCD display, I found the information at
> > >>http://techsounds.orgdotorg.org/linux/d800/ very useful. Since I am
> > >>not particularly concerned with high performance 3D rendering, I have
> > >>been using the X server included with SL 4.0 rather than the drivers
> > >>at nVIDIA's web site.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks for this update.
> > >
> > > -Connie Sieh
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