Return-path: Received: from mail-wy0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:63124 "EHLO mail-wy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751505Ab1FOHSG convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jun 2011 03:18:06 -0400 Received: by wya21 with SMTP id 21so81381wya.19 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:18:04 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <6180c38b62596f43ad139fa4a0d6ef24.squirrel@mail.errtech.com> References: <580b0ce8e524bbdee36d8d713e32c97a.squirrel@mail.errtech.com> <6180c38b62596f43ad139fa4a0d6ef24.squirrel@mail.errtech.com> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:48:04 +0530 Message-ID: (sfid-20110615_091810_614681_78D6CB80) Subject: Re: GPL firmware for AR9002 chipsets From: Mohammed Shafi To: tmail133@kglug.org Cc: linux-wireless Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:39 PM, chris wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Mohammed Shafi >> wrote: >>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:31 PM, chris wrote: >>>> I was reading on the mailing list that the AR9002 chipset supposedly >>>> has >>>> GPL firmware somewhere. Does anybody know where? And is it free >>>> software >>>> compliant or are they including the bad stuff within the GPL >>>> firmware'd. >>> >>> only for USB based AR9002 devices firmware required >> >>>> >>>> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k_htc > > I don't see license or source there. Is there some place I can get that? the source for the firmware is internally maintained and you can only get the updated binary there. sorry I am not aware of the license thing. > >> >> http://wireless.kernel.org/download/htc_fw/ >> >>>> >>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org/msg03035.html >>>> >>>> I have gotten the card to work in Ubuntu. I am working on getting it >>>> working in Trisquel (a free software distribution, if there is free >>>> firmware for it). >>>> >>>> Chris >>>> >>>> -- >>>> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe >>>> linux-wireless" in >>>> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >>>> More majordomo info at ?http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> shafi >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> shafi >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" >> in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at ?http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> > > > -- shafi