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Bug#396648: ITP: rt73 -- Linux device driver for Ralink RT73 a/b/g WLAN Card
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| Piotr Roszatycki 2006-11-03, 1:18 pm |
| Dnia pi=C4=85tek, 3 listopada 2006 13:27, md napisa=C5=82:
> On Nov 02, Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> wrote:
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> The driver can go in main anyway, since it's the hardware device which
> uses the firmware and not the driver.
The packages from main should work without things from non-free, I think...
The rt73 driver without firmware is useless.
I'm trying to get an information if firmware is distributable. The status o=
f=20
firmware is unknown, yet.
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.''`. Piotr Roszatycki
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| Marco d'Itri 2006-11-03, 1:18 pm |
| On Nov 03, Piotr Roszatycki <dexter@n1.pl> wrote:
> The packages from main should work without things from non-free, I think...
The rule is that they must not depend on packages not in main.
"Work without other things" is not the criteria we use, and e.g. ICQ
clients fail it.
> The rt73 driver without firmware is useless.
No, the functionality of the driver does not change. It's your hardware
which is useless until a firmware is loaded on it.
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ciao,
Marco
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