Bug 4100

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Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX

Same problem with Mageia 4.

Status: RESOLVED => REOPENED
CC: (none) => liste
Resolution: WONTFIX => (none)

(In reply to Barry Jackson from comment #0)

> This does not seem to be included in the kernel-firmware or
> kernel-firmware-extra/nonfree packages.

I'm curious: Why don't you simply add those firmwares, at least for cauldron?

(In reply to Florian Hubold from comment #4)
> (In reply to Barry Jackson from comment #0)
> 
> I'm curious: Why don't you simply add those firmwares, at least for cauldron?

Did you see the date on this original report?

I had forgotten all about it, and have not needed to use that device since.

Feel free to do it if you wish - I'm really short on time and would need to re-research the way these are packaged.

(In reply to Barry Jackson from comment #5)
> 
> Did you see the date on this original report?

Yes I did :) and saw that it was confirmed for mga4.
Packaging is pretty simple: http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/kernel-firmware-nonfree/current/SPECS/kernel-firmware-nonfree.spec?view=markup

I'll see what I can do ...

Hardware: x86_64 => All
Status: REOPENED => ASSIGNED
Version: 4 => Cauldron
Assignee: tmb => doktor5000
Severity: major => normal

Please dont... there is no clear license info for that fw, so it's a no-go

CC: (none) => tmb

(In reply to Thomas Backlund from comment #7)
> Please dont... there is no clear license info for that fw, so it's a no-go

Wouldn't have added it directly :)
But now I remember, I've CC'ed you in the past about those firmwares. Quoting my mail to the author of https://daemonizer.de/:



On Tuesday 14 February 2012 16:55:55 Florian Hubold wrote:
> Hi there,
>
>
> i want to include the firmwares linked from
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/p54#firmware
> into Mageia Linux, could you please tell me what license
> they are under and what about redistribution, and if there's
> source available?
> Because i nowhere found a hint about the license, and
> can't decide in which repository they should go to.
>
> Kind Regards
>
>
> Florian
>
>
> PS: You can also answer in german, if that's easier 

Hi Florian,

sorry for the delay, I had little time last week.

Sadly there is no official license nor any source code available.

The firmwares have been extracted from different "official" drivers, mostly 
from windows drivers. I was told that Connexant (the Company manufacturing 
these wireless chips) doesn't mind me distributing these firmware files, but 
sadly there is no official statement from them. The only thing I can say is 
that so far nobody did complain.

I hope this will help you somehow.

Greetings,
Maxi



and the comment from Anssi was (with Thomas on CC): 


20.02.2012 19:39, Florian Hubold kirjoitti:
> Hi Thomas, hi Anssi,
>
> would you please take a look at this forwarded mail, if it
> would be possible to redistribute the mentioned firmwares?

AFAIK our policy is no firmware without license except for those
previously distributed with the kernel.

-- Anssi Hannula 




Hence closing this one, there's nothing we can do about this, sadly.

Status: ASSIGNED => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => anssi.hannula
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX

(In reply to Thomas Backlund from comment #7)


And before I forget: You should get well soon, instead of reading boring bug reports ;)