Bug#396648: ITP: rt73 -- Linux device driver for Ralink RT73 a/b/g WLAN Card

[Piotr Roszatycki <dexter@n1.pl>]

Dnia piątek, 3 listopada 2006 13:27, md napisał:
> On Nov 02, Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> wrote:
> > One other question: do all variants of this device require firmware from
> > the driver, or only some of them?  (Just asking because several other
> > ralink cards, such as rt2500, do not seem to require the driver to supply
> > firmware.)  If some variants of the device will work without supplied
> > firmware, then the driver can go to main, regardless of where or if the
> > firmware gets distributed.
>
> The driver can go in main anyway, since it's the hardware device which
> uses the firmware and not the driver.

The packages from main should work without things from non-free, I think...
The rt73 driver without firmware is useless.

I'm trying to get an information if firmware is distributable. The status of 
firmware is unknown, yet.

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