Subject: Re: [alpine-user] ipw2200 wireless
To: Paul Zillmann <p.zillmann@h6g.de>, alpine-user@lists.alpinelinux.org
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From: Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola@libero.it>
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Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 00:05:36 +0200
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Hi,

Paul Zillmann wrote:
> I believe it's due to the license.

can't we have the equivalent of nonfree or some kind of switch?
The firmware is available for debian, gentoo most linux distributions I 
know as some BSDs. A kernel driver without firmware is ... a little user 
unfriendly.


> But you can find that file(s) in the Debian repositories under 
> /debian/config/ipw2x00/ in the tar file.
> Debian puts it under /lib/firmware/ipw2200-[bss/ibss].fw
> 
> http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-nonfree_20161130-3.debian.tar.xz 
> 


I unpacked put the files and now my wireless works! so it is "only" a 
matter of firmware.

Thanks

Riccardo


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