right, it's there: http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.p l/airone t-utils-linux (and a mirror to avoid giving personal infos to cisco: http://www.pg.infn.it/servizi/calcolo/howto/wirele ss/Linux-ACU-Driver-v2.0.tar.gz ) actually it seems to be under MPL, though there is a MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") (as many pcmcia drivers derived from Linux Card Services, which is under double license (GPL/MPL)).
They put the freq and power setup logic in the driver because it's simpler, and more flexible, and easier to change (like, in France they only recently freed some channels for WiFi that was used by the army) or adapt to other countries. The problem being that accessing the hw directly the user can setup illegal configurations.
I agree that's quite much of a false excuse, but that's their point.
it's not about turning a WiFi card into a microwave hoven, it's about certification and user-allowed frequency/power mods.
In the regs, it is said that the product can only be certified if it (along with the software (driver)), can't let a user setup a power/freq combination that isn't allowed. They usually claim that leaving the drivers OSS would show how to setup illegal emitting power on some freqs... Quite a poor excuse though.
now if only
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they would remove/change their stupid regulation that manufacturers claim forbid them to make opensource WiFi drivers... Well some do claim to have OSS drivers, even under GPL: http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS548876786 9.html , however their "driver" is only a stub to load a closedsource module, and I even wonder if they don't break the GPL by releasing a closed source driver under it.
Those were _presentations_, that is run by yellowTAB, not by an independant *g* journalist.
RIAA SUXOR, MPAA SUXOR, DMCA SUXOR, Madonna hacked
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Why, oh why are they always trying to take away our freedom ? Why do they always want to deny us fair use ? Why do they want us to stop pirating when they make billions and don't redistributes half to artists and even only to the big ones, those who wouldn't need that much, and never to those many awesome artists that majors don't even care about ???
On a related topic, and since my news item has been denied, Madonna's website has been hacked... They even uploaded mp3s from her 2003 albums =) mirror here: http://clapcrest.free.fr/revol/madonna.com.htm (at least this one don't require flash+IE:))))
I have my main mail account @ISP1. I connect to Internet at ISP2. ISP1 doesn't want to send mail comming from ISP2, and ISP2doesn't want to relay mail with a From:@ISP1.
We all heard about the "legacy-free PC" concepts from wintel, or how to dump functionnal, documented and supported ports such as RS232 and centronics from the PC in favour of supposedly newer and incompatible, undocumented, licenced (= $$), patent-encumbered ports (USB, but also this "debug" connector which will take some years to be itself debugged and which you don't know how to wire a vt100 on). Now what I would call legacy is really this TCPA thingy...
So the question is: Will you provide legacy-free BIOSes to custommers who ask/need them ? (That is the version without TCPA) Will this version be available directly to customer at shops ? or will we have to ask you for a replacement flash file ??
Will we even be able to flash our own (and owned !) BIOS ??? (and flash it again with the TCPA-enabled once we want it without loosing any signature ?)
Finally put in a simpler way will we still be able to _own_ the things we buy ???
so instead of making a better BIOS compatible with OF they waste time incorporating antifreedom "technology" (please, PLEASE, don't use this word ever again, it has lots all its meaning, now even a bread toaster is "technology... that's really a shame to me) inside.
This thing already exists, it has a command line, and all drivers available as forth modules to be used directly by the OS... and that's called OpenFirmware. Macs use it, Sun stations use it... But of course PC makers are to tied up to obscure and featureless BIOS.
Will you opensource your BIOS so _we_ (so-called users of trusted BIOS) will be able to verify that your product doesn't harm our privacy or infridge our legally own rights (whichever country we come from) ? So that WE can trust YOU ?
Btw, now that I've ported ffmpeg and it supports WMA (the only FreeSoftware and OpenSource WMA decoder, no more DLL hack:)), well I have one less reason to boot windoze from time to time:) And there is even a port of mplayer comming along nicely. Oh, and I ported XEmacs, so you really don't need anything else =)))
As far as I'm concerned, I used Linux for some time, then I switched to BeOS one year ago, and since then I use it for 95% of the time. It does all I need, and it just works. It's really nice for desktops... And to shut the mouth os those who'll ask "BeOS ? Mouaahh it's dead": it's far from dead. It's even way more alive than before Be died:) http://beunited.org/ http://openbeos.org/ ht tp://yellowtab.com/
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I once installed 3.0 on a 720K floppy :p
right, it's there:p l/airone t-utils-linuxe ss/Linux-ACU-Driver-v2.0.tar.gz )
http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.
(and a mirror to avoid giving personal infos to cisco: http://www.pg.infn.it/servizi/calcolo/howto/wirel
actually it seems to be under MPL, though there is a MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") (as many pcmcia drivers derived from Linux Card Services, which is under double license (GPL/MPL)).
http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Engineering_Technology/ Orders/2001/fcc01264.pdf
They put the freq and power setup logic in the driver because it's simpler, and more flexible, and easier to change (like, in France they only recently freed some channels for WiFi that was used by the army) or adapt to other countries.
The problem being that accessing the hw directly the user can setup illegal configurations.
I agree that's quite much of a false excuse, but that's their point.
it's not about turning a WiFi card into a microwave hoven, it's about certification and user-allowed frequency/power mods.
In the regs, it is said that the product can only be certified if it (along with the software (driver)), can't let a user setup a power/freq combination that isn't allowed.
They usually claim that leaving the drivers OSS would show how to setup illegal emitting power on some freqs... Quite a poor excuse though.
they would remove/change their stupid regulation that manufacturers claim forbid them to make opensource WiFi drivers...6 9.html , however their "driver" is only a stub to load a closedsource module, and I even wonder if they don't break the GPL by releasing a closed source driver under it.
Well some do claim to have OSS drivers, even under GPL:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS54887678
what she means is BeOs always sets NumLock to off even if it was on at boot.
Remember R5.1d0 is STILL illegal, and clicking the link exposes you to lawsuits *g*
Why always use the past tense ?
BeOS still is !
I use it everyday, and it gets the job done.
Those were _presentations_, that is run by yellowTAB, not by an independant *g* journalist.
Why, oh why are they always trying to take away our freedom ? Why do they always want to deny us fair use ? Why do they want us to stop pirating when they make billions and don't redistributes half to artists and even only to the big ones, those who wouldn't need that much, and never to those many awesome artists that majors don't even care about ???
:))))
On a related topic, and since my news item has been denied, Madonna's website has been hacked...
They even uploaded mp3s from her 2003 albums =)
mirror here: http://clapcrest.free.fr/revol/madonna.com.htm (at least this one don't require flash+IE
I have my main mail account @ISP1.
I connect to Internet at ISP2.
ISP1 doesn't want to send mail comming from ISP2, and ISP2doesn't want to relay mail with a From:@ISP1.
What do I do ?
This is not for Geeks ! :D
:)
This is for windoze users
(btw I know a couple who spent their last holidays on EQ
didn't you mean _fatter_ ? =)
The same things, but without the time spent.
We all heard about the "legacy-free PC" concepts from wintel, or how to dump functionnal, documented and supported ports such as RS232 and centronics from the PC in favour of supposedly newer and incompatible, undocumented, licenced (= $$), patent-encumbered ports (USB, but also this "debug" connector which will take some years to be itself debugged and which you don't know how to wire a vt100 on).
Now what I would call legacy is really this TCPA thingy...
So the question is:
Will you provide legacy-free BIOSes to custommers who ask/need them ? (That is the version without TCPA) Will this version be available directly to customer at shops ? or will we have to ask you for a replacement flash file ??
Will we even be able to flash our own (and owned !) BIOS ??? (and flash it again with the TCPA-enabled once we want it without loosing any signature ?)
Finally put in a simpler way will we still be able to _own_ the things we buy ???
so instead of making a better BIOS compatible with OF they waste time incorporating antifreedom "technology" (please, PLEASE, don't use this word ever again, it has lots all its meaning, now even a bread toaster is "technology... that's really a shame to me) inside.
This thing already exists, it has a command line, and all drivers available as forth modules to be used directly by the OS... and that's called OpenFirmware.
Macs use it, Sun stations use it...
But of course PC makers are to tied up to obscure and featureless BIOS.
Will you opensource your BIOS so _we_ (so-called users of trusted BIOS) will be able to verify that your product doesn't harm our privacy or infridge our legally own rights (whichever country we come from) ? So that WE can trust YOU ?
Oh, and btw, just overclock your K6-2 and you'll be able to watch Divx in BeOS :) :))
... BeOS still lives on :)
:)
(I do on my K6-2 350
Oh, and not to mention http://beunited.org and http://yellowtab.com
And btw, Farscape rulz
There *is* a NFS client for BeOS, and an SMB client too, and a descent web browser (Mozilla and Phoenix) !
http://bebits.com
So true ! :-(
Btw, now that I've ported ffmpeg and it supports WMA (the only FreeSoftware and OpenSource WMA decoder, no more DLL hack :)), well I have one less reason to boot windoze from time to time :)
And there is even a port of mplayer comming along nicely.
Oh, and I ported XEmacs, so you really don't need anything else =)))
As far as I'm concerned, I used Linux for some time, then I switched to BeOS one year ago, and since then I use it for 95% of the time. :)t tp://yellowtab.com/
It does all I need, and it just works. It's really nice for desktops...
And to shut the mouth os those who'll ask "BeOS ? Mouaahh it's dead": it's far from dead. It's even way more alive than before Be died
http://beunited.org/
http://openbeos.org/
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once again, sorry not to live in the Land Of Freedom, but at least in France, software patents are illegal (not that it won't change...). :^)
Say it with me:
"I do not recognize software patents."
Winamp too, with appropriate plugins, but ... do they run in Linux ? or BeOS ? or AmigaOS(*g*) ?