Bug 187433

Summary:	Review Request: acx-kmod - Open ACX100/ACX111 wireless NIC driver
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik>
Component:	Package Review	Assignee:	Nobody's working on this, feel free to take it <nobody>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Package Reviews List <fedora-package-review>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	lemenkov, matthias, seg
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Description Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2006-03-30 21:34:22 UTC

Spec Name or Url: http://rpm.greysector.net/extras/acx-kmod.spec
SRPM Name or Url: http://rpm.greysector.net/extras/acx-kmod-0.3.35-0.2.20060215.2.6.15_1.1833_FC4.src.rpm
Description:
ACX100 is an open source driver for ACX100/ACX111 WiFi chipsets.

Comment 1 Matthias Saou 2006-03-31 17:45:52 UTC

This driver doesn't work without some firmware files, so I'm not 100% sure it
really belongs into Extras. I've also built acx-kmod and acx-kmod-common
packages, which are available here :
http://svn.rpmforge.net/svn/trunk/rpms/acx-kmod/
http://svn.rpmforge.net/svn/trunk/rpms/acx-kmod-common/
As well as two packages for the main firmwares.

Sure, ipw2xxx modules are agood example of free drivers that require a
non-included firmware to work, but since they're built from the main kernel, I
myself consider it somewhat different.

Comment 2 Ville Skyttä 2006-03-31 20:34:56 UTC

bcm43xx is another example which requires firmware files.  If that's good enough
an arrangement for the main kernel package, I don't see why it wouldn't be for
external modules per se.

Comment 3 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2006-04-02 20:10:15 UTC

Ideally, the -common package should contain the firmwares IMHO. But since it's
questionable whether it's distributable, this is what we're stuck with.

Comment 4 Callum Lerwick 2006-04-03 06:19:16 UTC

Note that D-Link Deutschland GmbH has apparently given unlimited distribution
rights to their ACX1xx firmware. This would seem to meet the Fedora binary
firmware packaging guidelines. 

http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/01/msg00989.html
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#head-adf31c383612aac313719f7b4f8167b7dcf245d2

With the small snag that I can't figure out exactly what firmware this covers,
or the full original message that gives the permission. I guess this means you
can just download the windows drivers from D-Link and pull the firmware files out.

As far as what firmware you need for which chip:

http://acx100.sourceforge.net/wiki/Firmware

Comment 5 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2006-09-21 17:26:34 UTC

The PCMCIA port on my laptop has died, I have no means to test this anymore, so
I'm withdrawing this.