Re: iwlwifi non-free?

[Adrian Levi <adrian.levi@gmail.com>]

2009/9/25 Jon Ander Peñalba <jonan.debian@gmail.com>:
> AFAIK iwlwifi is an open source driver that was merged into the linux kernel
> v2.6.24 and Debian still needs 'firmware-iwlwifi' installed which is in the
> non-free repository.
>
> Am I missing something?

This card requires a non-free binary blob to be loaded into the card
for it to work. That's where the firmware part comes into play.

Adrian

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