Bug#200504: marked as done (ITP: madwifi -- Binary Multiband Atheros Driver for WiFi)
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Subject: ITP: madwifi -- Binary Multiband Atheros Driver for WiFi
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Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-08
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : madwifi
Version : 20030702
Upstream Author : Sam Leffler <samleffler@users.sourceforge.net>
* URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi
* License : BSD or GPLv2[1] with some unmodifiable binary parts[2]
Description : Binary Multiband Atheros Driver for WiFi
A Linux device driver for 802.11a/b/g Wireless NIC cards - either Cardbus, PCI, or miniPCI - that use Atheros chip sets (ar5210, ar5211, ar5212). Currently the binary-only HAL part of the module is only available on x86.
[1] Licence is 3 point BSD with the following addition:
* Alternatively, this software may be distributed under the terms of the
* GNU General Public License ("GPL") version 2 as published by the Free
* Software Foundation.
Unfortunatly, since it doesn't explictly allow linking to nonfree code,
We really cant distribute with GPL terms. I assume this is just an
oversight and will contact the author. Obvously, this will be nonfree
anyway :(
[2] Atheros has a little better excuse to provide nonfree kernel stuff
than for example nvidia:
> The ath_hal module contains the Atheros Hardware Access Layer (HAL).
> This code manages much of the chip-specific operation of the driver.
> The HAL is provided in a binary-only form in order to comply with FCC
> regulations. In particular, a radio transmitter can only be operated at
> power levels and on frequency channels for which it is approved. The FCC
> requires that a software-defined radio cannot be configured by a user
> to operate outside the approved power levels and frequency channels.
> This makes it difficult to open-source code that enforces limits on
> the power levels, frequency channels and other parameters of the radio
> transmitter. See
> http://ftp.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Engineering_Technology/Orders/2001/fcc01264.pdf
Basicly FCC says, that manufacturers of software radios have take
measures to prevent the software to be modified in such ways that it
will operate outside the approved range.
This is offcourse a tough problem, regulation is necessary evil in
the limited spectrum, but without the flexibility of software radio,
creating multimode/multiband devices is a lot more expensive.
To make things worse, FCC is in the process of creating standards for
signing/encrypting radio software. Time to start lobbying FCC?
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From: Loic Minier <lool@dooz.org>
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Subject: Bug#200504: fixed in madwifi 0.svn20051110-1
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Source: madwifi
Source-Version: 0.svn20051110-1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
madwifi, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
madwifi-dev_0.svn20051110-1_all.deb
to pool/non-free/m/madwifi/madwifi-dev_0.svn20051110-1_all.deb
madwifi-source_0.svn20051110-1_all.deb
to pool/non-free/m/madwifi/madwifi-source_0.svn20051110-1_all.deb
madwifi-tools_0.svn20051110-1_i386.deb
to pool/non-free/m/madwifi/madwifi-tools_0.svn20051110-1_i386.deb
madwifi_0.svn20051110-1.diff.gz
to pool/non-free/m/madwifi/madwifi_0.svn20051110-1.diff.gz
madwifi_0.svn20051110-1.dsc
to pool/non-free/m/madwifi/madwifi_0.svn20051110-1.dsc
madwifi_0.svn20051110.orig.tar.gz
to pool/non-free/m/madwifi/madwifi_0.svn20051110.orig.tar.gz
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 200504@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Loic Minier <lool@dooz.org> (supplier of updated madwifi package)
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Hash: SHA1
Format: 1.7
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 22:14:06 +0100
Source: madwifi
Binary: madwifi-dev madwifi-tools madwifi-source
Architecture: source i386 all
Version: 0.svn20051110-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian madwifi team <pkg-madwifi-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Loic Minier <lool@dooz.org>
Description:
madwifi-dev - includes for the Multiband Atheros Driver for WiFi (madwifi)
madwifi-source - source for the Multiband Atheros Driver for WiFi (madwifi)
madwifi-tools - tools for the Multiband Atheros Driver for WiFi (madwifi)
Closes: 200504
Changes:
madwifi (0.svn20051110-1) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Initial upload to Debian. (Closes: #200504)
* New SVN snapshot.
* New versionning scheme.
* Set group as Maintainer and move Kel Modderman in Uploaders.
[debian/control, debian/control.modules.in]
* Drop madwifi meta-package: the development files should be pulled by
Build-Depends, and the tools should be recommended by the resulting module
images.
[debian/control]
* Detail the various copyrights used in the source.
[debian/copyright]
* Add sharutils to module build-deps.
[debian/control.modules.in]
Files:
b3fb568611207e5b93fc63432ef8cc77 805 non-free/net optional madwifi_0.svn20051110-1.dsc
78f0010e12b8a9d9c090fcfbff48828c 2100015 non-free/net optional madwifi_0.svn20051110.orig.tar.gz
f14cf25859eac640027763a30ac0e0bb 11730 non-free/net optional madwifi_0.svn20051110-1.diff.gz
24248577df30d1da7fd7c681bf629956 2001360 non-free/net optional madwifi-source_0.svn20051110-1_all.deb
04e33173e310c23b47817086321d5c94 27822 non-free/net optional madwifi-dev_0.svn20051110-1_all.deb
c2bc64b6c3dd49502c08931df0a96c74 33332 non-free/net optional madwifi-tools_0.svn20051110-1_i386.deb
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