[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] RE: Nokia 770 sources...

[From: Kalle Vahlman]

2006/8/30, Andrew Barr <andrew.james.barr at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 11:47 -0400, John B. Holmblad wrote:
> > Andrew,
> >
> > regarding your comment on support for Kimset I would add that with the
> > proliferation of so-called Municipal WIFI networks here in the U.S.,
> > it behooves Nokia to make the M770 attractive/useful not only to
> > software developers (the arguable lack of such "attractiveness" seems
> > to be the underlying theme of this thread started with righteous
> > indignation by ) but also to end users,
>
> I know this isn't Nokia's fault (blame Conexant for refusing to talk to
> the Prism54 people) but if the WLAN driver wasn't binary-only this
> wouldn't be an issue. Monitor mode is a standard feature of Linux WLAN
> drivers and IMHO it should work properly. Hopefully someday the
> islsm/FreeMAC/whatever work will be done and the cx3110x driver can be
> banished.

Forgive me if I'm ignorant, but do you mean this one:

  https://garage.maemo.org/projects/cx3110x/

"License: GNU General Public License (GPL)" doesn't sound too binary,
even though GPL tends to be a bit black-and-white in it's license
compatibility regulation... ;)

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