[maemo-developers] umac.ko

[From: Kalle Valo]

"ext maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org"
<maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org> writes:
> I also very much would like this to work with packet injection,

Me too.

> and be able to modify the source completely for other reasons.

I also would like you to be able to modify the source code, no doubt
about that. I'm a strong supporter of Open Source and I'm certain that
having an open WLAN driver would benefit both the community and Nokia.

But as life in general, things are not that simple. It's not that we
just need to decide that we will have an open driver. There are
various aspects and requirements involved, and all them need to solved
before an open driver would be reality.

> So in this case can't we just get the full data sheet for the chip 
> and we're off to the races. Program it to do anything we need. 
> Third party manu. so I'm assuming the full data sheet is not top 
> secret...?

Only public data sheet I'm aware of is here:

http://www.st.com/stonline/products/literature/bd/12063/stlc4550.htm

But that's not going to help you at all.

If we could publish a complete data sheet of the WLAN chip in Nokia
tablets, we would have done that a long time ago. Heck, I would have
even written the driver on my free time if that would have been
possible. The problems here are not technical, but something else.

-- 
Kalle Valo