Il giorno sabato 30/01/2010 11:31:25 CET Jason Self <jason.s...@gmail.com> ha scritto:
> On Jan 30, 2010, at 11:13 AM, Michael Stevens <mstev...@etla.org> > wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:11:09AM -0800, Jason Self wrote: > >> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Michael Stevens > >> <mstev...@etla.org> wrote: > >> > >>> a) I've cocked up my install and it's not coming from gnewsense > >>> (seems > >>> unlikely, but this machine did have ubuntu on before) > >> > >> My machine also has these files and never had Ubuntu on it. > > > > I'm getting increasing confidence this stuff's nonfree so I created > > a bug on savannah. > > I believe the Intel firmware is distributed under a "free to > distribute but not modify" license. the drivers are under GPL2... *BUT* they require a *non-free* software firmware to be loaded... see: http://intellinuxwireless.org/?n=FAQ&s=license <cite> Q. What license covers these drivers? A. The wireless drivers themselves are licensed under the GPL version 2. Each of the wireless adapters requires a corresponding microcode or firmware image to be loaded in order to function. The microcode for the ipw3945 driver (ieee80211 based) also requires the use of a user space regulatory daemon. All of those binaries are distributed as binaries under a proprietary, free to redistribute (but not modify), license. </cite> on my laptop (Lenovo/IBM Thinkpad T61 6466-5DG ) i have such an intel wireless adapter (Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG)... it does not properly work to me with gNS... and manually installing the non-free intel firmware is NOT a solution (in terms of freedom)... so i have phisically *disabled* (shut off) the intel adapter and now i am happily using one D-Link DWL-G122 rev.C1 (07d1:3c03) wirelss USB adapter instead (driver module: rt73usb - kernel included) NOTE: the default gNS installed system loads (as you have reported) the iwl3945 driver module (for the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG) which prevents loading other wireless drivers! so you may need to blacklist iwl3945 (in /ect/modprobe.d/blacklist) to be able to use other wireless adapters regards al3xu5 / dotcommon -- Support free software! Join FSF: http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=7535 ______________________________________________________________________ Public GPG/PGP key block ID: 1024D/11C70137 Fingerprint: 60F1 B550 3A95 7901 F410 D484 82E7 5377 11C7 0137 Key download: http://bitfreedom.noblogs.org/gallery/5721/dotcommon.asc [ Please, do not send my key to any keyserver! ]
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