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Subject: RE: Dlink DSL PCI Card
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From: "Dave Rattay [ITeX]" <Dave.Rattay@itexinc.com>
To: "Benjamin LaHaise" <bcrl@redhat.com>
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Ben,

   Well in that case you will have to talk to marketing and sales.  Try
easternsales@itexinc.com

    Dave


-----Original Message-----
From: Benjamin LaHaise [mailto:bcrl@redhat.com]
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 2:50 PM
To: Dave Rattay [ITeX]
Cc: Stephan von Krawczynski; alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk;
egberts@yahoo.com; lkml@secureone.com.au; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;
ITeX Tech Support
Subject: Re: Dlink DSL PCI Card


On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:33:48PM -0800, Dave Rattay [ITeX] wrote:
> Stephan,
> 
>     I am not sure if you actually requesting anything but here are
some
> points on this matter.  First and foremost we do not make these cards.
> They are made by our customers that we supply chips for.  We do make
the
> drivers for these boards but they can then be customized by our
> customers.  The point is that we do support Linux for our customers
and
> our customers are not really end-users.  Now since end-users are
> indirectly our customers we do supply Linux drivers on request.  Also
if
> we cannot meet a request for any reason that information is added to
our
> Marketing data for future driver development.  Due to previous
licensing
> agreements we cannot release our source code to anyone including our
> direct customers and there is no way around that.  Sorry.  Now if you
> have a request for a driver please let me know the kernel version
being
> used as well as the ADSL protocol that you have.  I will see what I
can
> do to get you a usable driver.

You're missing the point.  We as developers want the specifications for 
the hardware as we're completely willing to write our own driver from 
scratch.  Until Itex is able to provide this to developers, products 
based on your chipsets will remain not recommended for Linux users as 
it will continually result in a poor user experience.

		-ben
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