[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Dec 10, Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > You may want to take a look at debian-legal, because some people there >> > think that even free drivers for hardware devices which need an >> > externally loaded firmware are not acceptable for main. >> I presume you're referring to drivers which are useless without a non-free >> firmware blob. > I know about no drivers which are useless without a non-free firmware, > while I know about a huge number of hardware devices which are useless > without a non-free firmware. > > -- > ciao, | > Marco | [9701 brFkyuAiot0mo]
So the drivers without the firmware are usefull (i.e. make the hardware work) but the hardware doesn't work without firmware (i.e. make the driver fail)? You contradict yourself. MfG Goswin