[Freedombox-discuss] WLAN firmware soldered onto hardware

2011-09-19 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi, At the devel list of GTA04, the successor of OpenMoko FreeRunner, was mentioned a project to try improve the situation of the non-free libertas driver for its MArwell WiFi chip. Same chip is in the DreamPlug, I believe, so maybe relevant for hardware geeks among us to follow - or even cont

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] [Gta04-owner] Status GTA04 EA

2011-09-19 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi Nikolaus (cc FreedomBox list), On 11-09-19 at 01:24pm, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > > Am 19.09.2011 um 12:23 schrieb Bob Ham: > > > On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 11:06 +0200, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > > > > Surely the best approach, in terms of freedom should be increasing > > everybod

[Freedombox-discuss] Entropy from the soundcard

2011-09-19 Thread Frank
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 1:06 AM, Sandy Harris wrote: >On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor > wrote: > >> Frank from debian-nas.org wrote me off-list about entropy daemons, >> and agreed i could share his notes publicly. >> >> He wrote: >> >>> haveged runs just fine on both my QNAP

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] WLAN firmware soldered onto hardware

2011-09-19 Thread Felipe Sanches
This is so sick! They seem to be trying to hide the trash... On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 6:24 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Hi, > > At the devel list of GTA04, the successor of OpenMoko FreeRunner, was > mentioned a project to try improve the situation of the non-free > libertas driver for its MArwel

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] WLAN firmware soldered onto hardware

2011-09-19 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 11-09-19 at 01:04pm, Felipe Sanches wrote: > This is so sick! They seem to be trying to hide the trash... Sickness is on FSF for suggesting and encouraging that approach. Sorry for my lousy introduction on the matter to this list. The interesting part is that alternative approach only briefl

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] WLAN firmware soldered onto hardware

2011-09-19 Thread Ted Smith
On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 20:44 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On 11-09-19 at 01:04pm, Felipe Sanches wrote: > > This is so sick! They seem to be trying to hide the trash... > > Sickness is on FSF for suggesting and encouraging that approach. The FSF position on this, for those who aren't familiar,

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] WLAN firmware soldered onto hardware

2011-09-19 Thread Felipe Sanches
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Ted Smith wrote: > If you think this is "sick," you're free to switch to OpenSPARC on your > FPGA. But it's probably not appropriate to post an unrelated political > argument to the Freedombox mailing list, unless you want to make it > difficult for people to work

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] WLAN firmware soldered onto hardware

2011-09-19 Thread José Manuel Canelas
I'm jumping in just to point out what seem to me as some instances of faulty reasoning. I do not have a fully formed and informed opinion on the issue at hand and mean no disrespect to anyone by my comparisons, i'm just looking for clarity. On 09/19/2011 08:06 PM, Ted Smith wrote: > > The reason

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] hackers needed to *solve* WLAN firmware issue

2011-09-19 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 11-09-19 at 08:44pm, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Sorry for my lousy introduction on the matter to this list. The > interesting part is that alternative approach only briefly referenced > on that web page I linked to previously: to rehash the work attempted > by OLPC but apparently stalled for

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Chef and Puppet experts?

2011-09-19 Thread José Manuel Canelas
On 09/15/2011 06:44 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On 11-09-15 at 05:59pm, José Manuel Canelas wrote: >> >> On 09/15/11 08:41, Philip Hands wrote: >>> On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:07:49 -0700, >>> freedombox-discuss.neophyte_...@ordinaryamerican.net wrote: ... > Using any of Puppet/Chef/cfengine t

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Chef and Puppet experts?

2011-09-19 Thread ya knygar
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