* Lars Hansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-30 10:49:59]:
> Travers Buda wrote:
> > They're basically the same thing.
>
> No they're not. One run on the vendors hardware, the other run on your
> OS. Two entirely different things.
>
Sorry, I was being nebulous.
They're the same thing in the reg
Travers Buda wrote:
> * Matthew R. Dempsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-29 15:16:15]:
>
>> On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 01:30:01PM -0600, Travers Buda wrote:
>>> Well I think both are equally dangerous (binary firmware and
>>> binary drivers.) They're basically the same thing.
Not at all, see below...
Travers Buda wrote:
> They're basically the same thing.
No they're not. One run on the vendors hardware, the other run on your
OS. Two entirely different things.
---
Lars Hansson
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 03:52:03PM -0600, Travers Buda wrote:
> Well there is that proof-of-concept that debuted at BlackHat where
> those researchers compromised the OS of a macintosh. I was under the
> impression that they compromised it via the firmware, but it is
> equally possible it was achi
* Matthew R. Dempsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-29 15:16:15]:
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 01:30:01PM -0600, Travers Buda wrote:
> > Well I think both are equally dangerous (binary firmware and binary
> > drivers.) They're basically the same thing.
>
> My understanding has always been that a bad b
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 01:30:01PM -0600, Travers Buda wrote:
> Well I think both are equally dangerous (binary firmware and binary
> drivers.) They're basically the same thing.
My understanding has always been that a bad binary driver can corrupt
main memory, but a bad binary firmware is limited
* Trond Danielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-29 18:30:05]:
> 2007/1/29, Vim Visual <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> >Which cards in that list are comparable in quality to the intel 2200BG
> >but do not require blobs?
> >
>
> The ipw2200 is not the only one that requires a binary firmware to be
> load
You can read here : http://vendorwatch.org/index.php?title=Blob
"Blobs are vendor-compiled binary drivers without any source code.
Hardware makers like them because they obscure the details of how to
make their hardware work. They hide bugs and workarounds for bugs.
Newer versions of blobs can we
2007/1/29, Vim Visual <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Which cards in that list are comparable in quality to the intel 2200BG
but do not require blobs?
The ipw2200 is not the only one that requires a binary firmware to be
loaded into network card to be funtional. Others may disagree, but I
think there is
Hi Johan and all,
fortunately the seller made the mistake in the web page where I found
the laptop and he wrote that it's a centrino and in the wikipedia you
can read:
"To qualify for a Centrino label, vendors must use all three Intel
qualified parts for laptop, otherwise using only the processo
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 10:29:42PM +0100, Vim Visual wrote:
> "Aironet MPI-350 Wireless" rev 0x00 at pci2 dev 2 function 0 not configured
>
> I've been googling for a while and it seems that there's no way to
> configure this one... I am just asking here in case
"Aironet MPI-350 Wireless" rev 0x00 at pci2 dev 2 function 0 not configured
I've been googling for a while and it seems that there's no way to
configure this one... I am just asking here in case of. Has anybody
fixed that one or found a way whatsoever?
gosh... I bought t
james:
> I've looked through the mailing list archives and haven't found any recent
> information about Aironet MPI-350 Wireless support. I just did a fresh
> install of OpenBSD 3.9 on a ThinkPad T40 with this wireless card. Dmesg
> outputs this information ""Ai
On 2006/10/18 01:16, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
> Does anyone know if Ralink/ral has any mPCI cards with the tx/rx power
> compareable to the ath(4) one in this link?
there aren't, you'll have look fairly hard to find even +20dBm on a
ralink minipci. they're usually +17dBm (and a bit less sensitive th
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 14:16, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
> Does anyone know if Ralink/ral has any mPCI cards with the tx/rx power
> compareable to the ath(4) one in this link?
man ral gives the following mpci cards:
Amigo AWI-922W
Billionton MIWLGRL
Gigabyte GN-WIKG
MSI MP54G2
MSI MS-6833
Tonze P
e:
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 12:18:17AM -0400, James Turner wrote:
> I've looked through the mailing list archives and haven't found any recent
> information about Aironet MPI-350 Wireless support. I just did a fresh
> install of OpenBSD 3.9 on a ThinkPad T40 with this wireless ca
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 12:18:17AM -0400, James Turner wrote:
> I've looked through the mailing list archives and haven't found any recent
> information about Aironet MPI-350 Wireless support. I just did a fresh
> install of OpenBSD 3.9 on a ThinkPad T40 with this wireless car
> Sam Fourman Jr.
>> >
>> > On 10/17/06, James Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> I've looked through the mailing list archives and haven't found any
>> >> recent
>> >> information about Aironet MPI-350 Wireless support. I
und any recent
information about Aironet MPI-350 Wireless support. I just did a fresh
install of OpenBSD 3.9 on a ThinkPad T40 with this wireless card. Dmesg
outputs this information ""Aironet MPI-350 Wireless" rev 0x00 at pci2 dev
2 function 0 not configured". I'm current
I've looked through the mailing list archives and haven't found any recent
information about Aironet MPI-350 Wireless support. I just did a fresh
install of OpenBSD 3.9 on a ThinkPad T40 with this wireless card. Dmesg
outputs this information ""Aironet MPI-350 Wireless&quo
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