Intel 5100 WiFi

[Max Laier]

On Monday 17 November 2008 05:27:48 jT wrote:
>    I know you are busy, but can you explain what about my response was
> wrong when you say doesn't require sysctl ack -- you mean
> acknowledgment?  I just would like to know for my future reference and
> Steve sorry for my misinformation.

the firmware for the iwn(4) powered cards is (in contrast to ipw(4)) provided 
by Intel under a permissive license that does not require end-user 
acknowledgment.  It is unfortunate that Intel doesn't release all firmware 
similarly - so we have to live with the slight confusion stemming from that.

You can identify all firmware(9) modules in the tree that require a license 
ack, by grepping for "FIRMWARE_LICENSE" in the module Makefiles.

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