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 forwar

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

2009-04-09 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 w

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

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] >

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 fo

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 ri