On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 21:55 +0200, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: > Hi > > On Friday 12 August 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 19:36 -0300, Willian Gustavo Veiga wrote: > > > Ben, probably you're right. I've missed some information, sorry about that: > > > > > > # dmesg > > > [ 312.484057] usb 1-5: new high speed USB device number 9 using ehci_hcd > > > [ 312.664228] usb 1-5: New USB device found, idVendor=0cf3, idProduct=1002 > > > [ 312.664233] usb 1-5: New USB device strings: Mfr=16, Product=32, SerialNumber=48 > > > [ 312.664237] usb 1-5: Product: USB2.0 WLAN > > > [ 312.664239] usb 1-5: Manufacturer: ATHER > > > [ 312.664241] usb 1-5: SerialNumber: 12345 > > > [ 312.780058] usb 1-5: reset high speed USB device number 9 using ehci_hcd > > > [ 312.954434] usb 1-5: firmware not found. > > > > This driver requires the wireless controller to run different firmware, > > which must be installed as /lib/firmware/carl9170-1.fw. That file > > should be included in the firmware-free package, but it isn't yet. See > > <http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/carl9170#Firmware-1>. > > Given that the licensing for carl9170fw is a bit special[1] for a > firmware image targetted at a different architecture and not easy to > fulfill in a way that avoids wget on the buildds or code duplication, > I've started some preliminary packaging for it at: > > Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.berlios.de/fullstory/firmware-carl9170/trunk > Vcs-Browser: http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/fullstory/firmware-carl9170/trunk/ > > While this should meet upstream license conditions in wording and > spirit and may pass ftp-master checking, its strong dependencies > on packaging structures of binutils-source, newlib-source and the > versioned gcc-$(GCC_VER)-source make it rather fragile and high > maintenance, not to say downright ugly (looking at the list of > build-depends). This packaging compiles the sh-2 cross-compiling > environment at build-time, as introducing a newlib based sh-2 > cross-compiling toolchain for this single package is hardly a preferred > option for Debian and binutils/ newlib/ gcc maintainers. [...] I suggest that you ask the FTP team whether they consider it necessary for the package to be built in this way. firmware-free includes source code but does not actually use it at package build time. It is rather taken on trust that the source code can actually be built, though you have prompted me to actually check this... Ben.
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