Re: ipw2100: firmware problem

[Jim Crilly]

On 06/09/05 09:30:22AM +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> On Thursday 09 June 2005 09:20, David S. Miller wrote:
> > From: Denis Vlasenko <vda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 09:17:23 +0300
> > 
> > > Sadly, realities are such that we have to live somehow
> > > with closed-source firmware.
> > 
> > You have a choice, buy products from friendly vendors.
> 
> I am trying! So far, I have Prism2.5, Prism54
> and acx111 cards, and all of them require closed binary fw.

Ralink cards don't require any binary firmware. I got one of the Hawking
Tech pcmcia cards off the shelf at a local CompUSA store and the card 
was a good $20 cheaper than a Linksys card. So far I haven't had any
problems with the card or the driver.

A list of Ralink hardware and drivers can be found at
http://ralink.rapla.net/ 

> vda
> 

Jim.
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