Bug#521553: rt2860 driver contains non-free firmware

2009-04-10 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Ben Hutchings may or may not have written... On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 00:28 +0100, Darren Salt wrote: [snip] [ http://alioth.debian.org/~dsalt-guest/rt2860sta-fw.tar.gz ] is now, I believe, completed; at least, it Works For Me. (I think that it's in a suitable form for forwarding

Bug#521553: rt2860 driver contains non-free firmware

2009-04-09 Thread Damyan Ivanov
-=| maximilian attems, Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 07:05:49PM +0200 |=- On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Ben Hutchings wrote: I'd like to commit the following change. Obviously this disables the drivers and they will have to be modified to work with external firmware. But I don't see why we should wait for

Bug#521553: rt2860 driver contains non-free firmware

2009-04-09 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Damyan Ivanov may or may not have written... [snip] Darren Salt is working on porting rt2860 to use the standard firmware loading mechanism. In my understanding, that would allow the driver to remain in the tree (enabled) and the formware moved to the firmware-linux package.

Bug#521553: rt2860 driver contains non-free firmware

2009-03-29 Thread maximilian attems
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Ben Hutchings wrote: I'd like to commit the following change. Obviously this disables the drivers and they will have to be modified to work with external firmware. But I don't see why we should wait for that. Ben. ok for committing to trunk, so that can be sorted for

Bug#521553: rt2860 driver contains non-free firmware

2009-03-28 Thread Damyan Ivanov
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.29 Severity: serious [cc-ed to debian-eeepc-devel as the affected network controller is uused in several eeepc models] Hi, The file drivers/staging/rt2860/common/firmware.h contains the following text: /* Copyright (c) 2007, Ralink Technology Corporation All

Bug#521553: rt2860 driver contains non-free firmware

2009-03-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 15:03 +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote: Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.29 Severity: serious [cc-ed to debian-eeepc-devel as the affected network controller is uused in several eeepc models] Hi, The file drivers/staging/rt2860/common/firmware.h contains the following

Bug#521553: rt2860 driver contains non-free firmware

2009-03-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 02:34:14PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 15:03 +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote: Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.29 Severity: serious [cc-ed to debian-eeepc-devel as the affected network controller is uused in several eeepc models] Hi,

Re: Bug#521553: rt2860 driver contains non-free firmware

2009-03-28 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 04:23:41PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: I'd like to commit the following change. This is okay for trunk. However not for sid. Bastian -- A Vulcan can no sooner be disloyal than he can exist without breathing. -- Kirk, The Menagerie, stardate 3012.4 --