From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 17 04:43:27 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D71ED106564A for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:43:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from max@love2party.net) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.177]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63B808FC12 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:43:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from max@love2party.net) Received: from vampire.homelinux.org (dslb-088-066-041-229.pools.arcor-ip.net [88.66.41.229]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu7) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0ML2xA-1L1vxL3Pko-000440; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:43:26 +0100 Received: (qmail 73095 invoked from network); 17 Nov 2008 04:43:19 -0000 Received: from fbsd8.laiers.local (192.168.4.151) by laiers.local with SMTP; 17 Nov 2008 04:43:19 -0000 From: Max Laier Organization: FreeBSD To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:43:18 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.1 (FreeBSD/8.0-CURRENT; KDE/4.1.1; i386; ; ) References: <4920E8BE.7080208@freebsd.org> <9f8af95f0811162027g41c4460fq89cf106ad64cf505@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9f8af95f0811162027g41c4460fq89cf106ad64cf505@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811170543.19218.max@love2party.net> X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX190k6m6LnLZ1iE4Jjbd8WpBDBpIQETw6PpTlIt T4XrD+5yE/Jhg7h6mlFZDOgfFLIID7yxiz4sw3wAy8vXNBz2sX zv+D1fsxZCq7RQ1cYAXWw== Cc: Steve Tremblett , Sam Leffler , jT Subject: Re: Intel 5100 WiFi X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:43:27 -0000 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. -- /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News