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Regulatory Binary Free ipw3945 Drivers for Linux

posted 17 Jan 2007

Puffy vs the Blob

Today at the Kernel Introduction Keith Packard corrected Jonathan Corbet and said that the Linux ipw3945 wireless driver no longer requires a binary regulatory daemon to run. After poking around the Sourceforge project website for a second I couldn't find the code and asked Keith about it.

It turns out the binary free project is now hosted at bughost.org. At this time the new driver requires running linux-wireless git tree so it isn't easy to use and build like the old driver but the lack of a binary userspace daemon should guarantee that the code is merged into mainline sometime in the future. Thanks to Intel for finding a better solution to this.

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Brandon Philips by Mujtaba Ali

ifup.org is the weblog of Brandon Philips and contains excerpts from my code, work and play.

I write Linux software and work on the systems layer of Linux. In the last two years I have helped to organize Linux Plumbers Conf and Freedom HEC Taipei. It has been rewarding to bring together these communities to discuss current Linux issues.

Robotics is another passion and I had the opportunity to mentor a FIRST Robotics team in Portland recently too. I also continue to work with my friend Ron Jackson to build some neat USB devices for robotics.