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> Enjoy your 12 year old ThinkPad with external Wifi dongle! I'm curious why that Wifi dongle you casually refer to runs firmware that is MIT-licensed and avai
by jancsika 3y ago
> Enjoy your 12 year old ThinkPad with external Wifi dongle!
I'm curious why that Wifi dongle you casually refer to runs firmware that is MIT-licensed and available on Github.
According to Wikipedia, it didn't require any reverse-engineering. So what was the business use-case for FOSS firmware here? And in the category of Wifi chips, why hasn't there been another such use case for modern hardware?
- pabs3 3y agoIIRC one of the Linux kernel developers worked for Atheros at the time and was able to convince them internally to release the source code for at least two different WiFi devices of theirs. Atheros were acquired by Qualcomm and that policy is now long gone.
- jancsika 3y agoDo you happen to know who the developer was? I'd love to get more info about how that happened.
- pabs3 3y agoI believe it was Luis R. Rodriguez, one or more of these emails might work: mcgrof@kernel.org mcgrof@gmail.com mcgrof@do-not-panic.com mcgrof@winlab.rutgers.edu https://www.do-not-panic.com/ https://www.do-not-panic.com/