From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 3 4:16:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from clientmail.realtime.co.uk (simian.realtime.co.uk [194.205.134.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AE6E37B424; Thu, 3 May 2001 04:16:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from waynep@zaphod.realtime.co.uk) Received: from zaphod.realtime.co.uk ([194.205.134.208]) by clientmail.realtime.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14vH62-0007e7-01; Thu, 03 May 2001 12:16:34 +0100 Received: from waynep by zaphod.realtime.co.uk with local (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14vH5y-000L9S-00; Thu, 03 May 2001 12:16:30 +0100 From: Wayne Pascoe To: Claude Buisson Cc: Wayne Pascoe , , Subject: Re: FYI: GPL Linux driver for Alcatel ADSL SpeedTouch USB References: Reply-To: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk Date: 03 May 2001 12:16:30 +0100 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 28 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Claude Buisson writes: > This software needs the Alcatel drivers (Windows OR Linux) to extract > the microcode. > > This software runs also on 2.2.17 kernels That I was not aware of. My bad. > > Companies that release these kinds of drivers for GNU/Linux and then > > claim to be heroes of the revolution just annoy me. At least Alcatel > > didn't brag about it. They just did it to get people off their back :) > As I found only pointers to the Alcatel code in the lists, I thought that > it could help for FreeBSD work to have another example (without kernel > patches and/or proprietary libraries). > > This is not made by a "company" and nobody is claiming to be a hero. Actually, it very much is made by a 'company'. Last time I checked, Alcatel was a _massive_ telecoms company. They are the ones I am referring to in my rant, not the original poster. -- - Wayne Pascoe E-mail: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk Phone : +44 (0) 20 7544 4668 Mobile: +44 (0) 788 431 1675 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message