2010/8/18 david fernandez <[email protected]>:
Alguien me pude sacar esta duda, el firmware para las placas wifi que poseen el controlador zydas zd1211 es libre? ya que en debian se lo tiene como no libre mientras que en parábola gnu/linux esta en los repositorios como libre. El driver es gpl peor el firmware no lo es, eso sabia hasta hace un año.
El firmware que se descarga de aquí http://sourceforge.net/projects/zd1211/files/ dice que es GPL en el README, pero no queda claro, parece que en realidad son GPL los headers, pero cuando hablan de "full source" parece que dentro están los "blobs" y eso no indica si son código o datos o si se sabe qué significa lo hay dentro: README ________________ This distribution contains the firmware files for the ZD1211 chip, which is used in WLAN USB sticks. Copy the zd1211_* files to /lib/firmware/zd1211, where they can be loaded by the rewritten zd1211 driver. The files are generated from C header files distributed in the original ZyDAS ZD1211 driver under the GNU Public License. The full source of the original ZYDAS driver is available from http://zd1211.wiki.sourceforge.net/VendorDriver The GPL-licensed header files used to produce the firmware blobs are also present in this distribution. See the COPYING file for the full license terms. HISTORY VERSION 1.4 (2007-10-04) Sync to vendor driver v2.21.0.0 According to Atheros, this firmware fixes a USB disconnect issue which most commonly appeared when running "lsusb" or "cat /proc/usb/devices" while using the device. VERSION 1.3 (2006-12-30) Sync to vendor driver v2.16.0.0 Large packet support is now disabled. The zd1211 firmware is now the same as v1.1 but the zd1211b firmware is new: It is the same which is shipped in the 2.10.0.0 release which supposedly fixes a "reboot issue" VERSION 1.2 (2006-07-22) Sync to vendor driver v2.13.0.0 Release notes mention that this firmware includes largepacket support VERSION 1.1 (2006-04-30) Added ZD1211B firmware files VERSION 1.0 (2006-04-16) This firmware has been generated from fersion 2_5_0_0 of the Zydas driver, 2006-04-16. ________________ -- Pablo Manuel Rizzo ------------------------------- http://pablorizzo.com -------------------------------