Getting wpi to work

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Wed May 9 08:02:43 PDT 2007


On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 04:40:28PM +0200, Simon corecode Schubert wrote:
> +++ Nuno Antunes [09/05/07 14:52 +0100]:
> > Well, in fact the new iwlwifi driver is under a license similar to BSD
> > according to http://intellinuxwireless.org/LICENSE.iwlwifi-ucode (I am
> > no law expert though...)
> 
> it reads:
> 
> * No reverse engineering, decompilation, or disassembly of this software 
>   is permitted.
> 
> That gives me the feeling that there is some binary part involved?

This is the microcode. You don't want to decompile it :-) This is quite
similiar e.g. to the Ralink code.

Joerg





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