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Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -------------------------------------- Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 8 Jul 2003 17:41:15 +0000 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jul 08 12:41:11 2003 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from jumbo89.adsl.netsonic.fi (watergate) [81.17.197.89] by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 1 (Debian)) id 19ZwSl-00060e-00; Tue, 08 Jul 2003 12:41:11 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.101] (helo=kgb.cia ident=mail) by watergate with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19ZwSf-0003b2-00; Tue, 08 Jul 2003 20:41:05 +0300 Received: from nchip by kgb.cia with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 19ZwSf-0000GS-00; Tue, 08 Jul 2003 20:41:05 +0300 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Riku Voipio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: ITP: madwifi -- Binary Multiband Atheros Driver for WiFi X-Mailer: reportbug 2.10.1 Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 20:41:05 +0300 X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: Riku Voipio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-12.2 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_20,HAS_PACKAGE,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,X_DEBBUGS_CC autolearn=ham version=2.53-bugs.debian.org_2003_06_27 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.53-bugs.debian.org_2003_06_27 (1.174.2.15-2003-03-30-exp) Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-08 Severity: wishlist * Package name : madwifi Version : 20030702 Upstream Author : Sam Leffler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi * License : BSD or GPLv2[1] with some unmodifiable binary parts[2] Description : Binary Multiband Atheros Driver for WiFi A Linux device driver for 802.11a/b/g Wireless NIC cards - either Cardbus, PCI, or miniPCI - that use Atheros chip sets (ar5210, ar5211, ar5212). Currently the binary-only HAL part of the module is only available on x86. [1] Licence is 3 point BSD with the following addition: * Alternatively, this software may be distributed under the terms of the * GNU General Public License ("GPL") version 2 as published by the Free * Software Foundation. Unfortunatly, since it doesn't explictly allow linking to nonfree code, We really cant distribute with GPL terms. I assume this is just an oversight and will contact the author. Obvously, this will be nonfree anyway :( [2] Atheros has a little better excuse to provide nonfree kernel stuff than for example nvidia: > The ath_hal module contains the Atheros Hardware Access Layer (HAL). > This code manages much of the chip-specific operation of the driver. > The HAL is provided in a binary-only form in order to comply with FCC > regulations. In particular, a radio transmitter can only be operated at > power levels and on frequency channels for which it is approved. The FCC > requires that a software-defined radio cannot be configured by a user > to operate outside the approved power levels and frequency channels. > This makes it difficult to open-source code that enforces limits on > the power levels, frequency channels and other parameters of the radio > transmitter. See > http://ftp.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Engineering_Technology/Orders/2001/fcc01264.pdf Basicly FCC says, that manufacturers of software radios have take measures to prevent the software to be modified in such ways that it will operate outside the approved range. This is offcourse a tough problem, regulation is necessary evil in the limited spectrum, but without the flexibility of software radio, creating multimode/multiband devices is a lot more expensive. To make things worse, FCC is in the process of creating standards for signing/encrypting radio software. Time to start lobbying FCC? -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux kgb 2.4.21-ck #1 SMP Sat Jun 14 14:54:10 EEST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------- Received: (at 200504-close) by bugs.debian.org; 21 Nov 2005 23:42:39 +0000 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Nov 21 15:42:39 2005 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from joerg by spohr.debian.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1EeLCo-0003xF-4o; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:36:14 -0800 From: Loic Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Katie: lisa $Revision: 1.30 $ Subject: Bug#200504: fixed in madwifi 0.svn20051110-1 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:36:14 -0800 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on spohr.debian.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,HAS_BUG_NUMBER autolearn=no version=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 Source: madwifi Source-Version: 0.svn20051110-1 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of madwifi, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive: madwifi-dev_0.svn20051110-1_all.deb to pool/non-free/m/madwifi/madwifi-dev_0.svn20051110-1_all.deb madwifi-source_0.svn20051110-1_all.deb to pool/non-free/m/madwifi/madwifi-source_0.svn20051110-1_all.deb madwifi-tools_0.svn20051110-1_i386.deb to pool/non-free/m/madwifi/madwifi-tools_0.svn20051110-1_i386.deb madwifi_0.svn20051110-1.diff.gz to pool/non-free/m/madwifi/madwifi_0.svn20051110-1.diff.gz madwifi_0.svn20051110-1.dsc to pool/non-free/m/madwifi/madwifi_0.svn20051110-1.dsc madwifi_0.svn20051110.orig.tar.gz to pool/non-free/m/madwifi/madwifi_0.svn20051110.orig.tar.gz A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Loic Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (supplier of updated madwifi package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 22:14:06 +0100 Source: madwifi Binary: madwifi-dev madwifi-tools madwifi-source Architecture: source i386 all Version: 0.svn20051110-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian madwifi team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By: Loic Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: madwifi-dev - includes for the Multiband Atheros Driver for WiFi (madwifi) madwifi-source - source for the Multiband Atheros Driver for WiFi (madwifi) madwifi-tools - tools for the Multiband Atheros Driver for WiFi (madwifi) Closes: 200504 Changes: madwifi (0.svn20051110-1) unstable; urgency=low . * Initial upload to Debian. (Closes: #200504) * New SVN snapshot. * New versionning scheme. * Set group as Maintainer and move Kel Modderman in Uploaders. [debian/control, debian/control.modules.in] * Drop madwifi meta-package: the development files should be pulled by Build-Depends, and the tools should be recommended by the resulting module images. [debian/control] * Detail the various copyrights used in the source. [debian/copyright] * Add sharutils to module build-deps. 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