Yet it suddenly occurred to Miss Chetwynd that her pride in being the
prospective sister-in-law of the Rev. Archibald Jones would be better for
christian louboutin outlet sale a while in her pocket. And she inquired
after Mr. Baines. After this the conversation limped somewhat. I suppose
Hopefully in the next Trisquel meeting, the issue regarding the kernels will
be brought up and discussed with Ruben. That is if he actually shows up this
time.
:) We need more clarification on the meeting times/days.
Actually. This should be the first thing on the agenda.
If it is every week at a particular time on a particular day fine. Lets
document it though. Then we need to remind people. Post to the mailing
list/create a new forum topic.
However I doubt that the code was removed or disabled to prevent the
loading of the firmware.
I believe it was, based on the deblob log [0] where it mentions
disabled non-Free firmware-loading machinery.
ATH9K_HTC - Atheros HTC based wireless cards support
Thanks for the responses. If the Atheros N devices can work out of the box
with Trisquel 6 using the standard and non backported libre kernels, then
that would be excellent. It is a good thing Chris looked into the Linux Libre
deblob script and hopefully his findings and suggestions
This is kind of weird.
disabled non-Free firmware-loading machinery
While there isn't a free version of the firmware right now I wouldn't think
you would want to disable the loading of firmware. It isn't (I'm assuming)
disabling the loading of only non-free firmware. Rather it is disabling
I talked to Alexandre Oliva who maintains the linux-libre kernel/script and
learned a few things.
1. Apparently Trisquel/Rubén maintain a separate deblob script
2. As jxself pointed out too it'll be easy to release an update to enable the
loading machinery in the kernel after Trisquel 6 is
It is as if the script removed some piece of the driver that loads the
firmware
Yes, that's exactly correct. You'd probably need to talk to Alexandre Olivia
to be sure but I think that the motivation is that the firmware is software,
and proprietary software at that, and in the absence of
Yea-
I did. That is what it sounded like to me based on what he said.
DNS and jxself are interesting people in the scope of the free software
world. Both are extremely talented and offer the most recent Linux Libre
kernel for Trisquel and other libre distros. Even if DNS didn't touch a
kernel again, his work on maintaining the free software in his PPAs is
It's probably a bit much to say that the fate of this entire distribution and
of the ThinkPenguin company lies with DNS and myself. The ath9k_htc driver
has been included with the kernel called Linux since version 2.6.35. That
means 5.0, 5.5, and 6.0 all have a new enough kernel.
Will this
The N wireless dongle that he sent me did NOT work out of the box in any
Trisquel or Ubuntu 12.04's stable kernels. It wasn't until I upgraded to
Ubuntu's 3.5 backport kernel that I was able to plug it in with no problem.
I do understand that clever hackers and PPA junkies will find a way to
As far as I know, no one outside of Qualcomm Atheros and those few people
working under NDA have even *seen* the source code for this yet so it's a
little premature at this time.
Don't worry, j3g, as I said: Once the firmware has been properly freed and
the source code made available,
t3g: We did a bit of testing in-house and I think Ubuntu 12.04 LTS worked out
of the box with the non-free firmware. Trisquel 5.5 is based on Ubuntu 11.10
though and the included kernel version does not include the driver to load
the firmware. Thus you needed to install a kernel + firmware
I think I might have tested the linux-libre kernel with the non-free firmware
and had problems. However I doubt that the code was removed or disabled to
prevent the loading of the firmware. It was probably something I was doing
like testing the firmware with the 5.5 release instead of with
You have me wondering now. I'm testing this as I write this.
Facts (just verified):
Ubuntu 12.04 contains the driver + firmware and the adapter works with it out
of the box
Trisquel 6 contains at least a partial driver although not the firmware.
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Here is where things get confusing... it
:) I'd agree with you on this. Worded differently though I would say it is
important that Trisquel be easy to use for everyone. I don't think that
requires the latest kernel provided there are options for people (hardware
with chipsets that are supported by older kernels for various types of
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