On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 04:32:40PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: > On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 23:31 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:23:33PM +0100, Nick Hill wrote: > > > I understand Ralink are the only vendor to have a 54g wireless chipset > > > which does not require the host to upload (non-free) firmware. > > > > > > Ralink have also released software and interface specs, and released a > > > driver under the GPL. > > > > > > The Ralink RT2500 kernel module is included by default with the kernel > > > released in Ubuntu 5.10. > > > > > > This appears to be the only 54g chipset Debian could currently support > > > 'out of the box'. > > > > > > Given that the ralink seem particularly free software friendly, the > > > chipset is cheap and common, and the driver is widely understood to work > > > well, are there any good reasons not to include the driver module with > > > the standard debian kernel? > > > > Well, there is a politic of allowing only stuff that goes upstream, which > > is a > > politic i am not really sure i am all that fond of, but well, > > Though it could very well exist as a kernel-module package until it is > available upstream, if someone is willing to package it.
Well, the problem is that the outside-of-tree modules are rather a pain to us, since we have no good procedure for kernel abi changes and outside-of-tree modules, and it requires more work to maintain them, and it is difficult to find good maintainers for those packages. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
