On Jun 01, Marek Habersack <grendel@debian.org> wrote: > are good uncles. The other hardware I mentioned above doesn't really have > good support in the free software world and why is that? Because most of it Actually some do: Alcatel USB DSL modems are supported by a good kernel space driver, derived from code originally released by the company. And Centrino wireless cards /now/ are supported by a kernel driver maintained by Intel people. Both devices need that firmware is uploaded by the host OS, but having the source for it would not help much maintaining free drivers, having the documentation for its API is much more important. In the rest of your message you are confusing non-free drivers with free drivers for devices which need a firmware to be provided by the host. -- ciao, | Marco | [6554 satw0/Z9QsSsM]
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