Peter Köhlmann <peter.koehlmann@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Mark Kent wrote:
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> The Open Source Solution to Solving Linux Wi-Fi Problem
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| The Future of Linux Wireless is Going to Be OEM. The future of wireless
>>>| for Linux distributions is OEM . It's just a matter of putting wireless
>>>| into marketplace, while avoiding compatibility issues. In short, it
>>>| provides an immediate reward to those vendors who choose to provide a
>>>| ready-to-go notebook bundled with Linux. We have seen this with a
>>>| variety of small time sellers, along with Dell, Lenovo and eventually
>>>| Acer and HP.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=8012
>>>
>>
>> As I keep saying, put the firmware on the chip, and the open-source
>> driver in the kernel, and all will be well.
>>
>
> And as you have been repeatedly been told, this leads to different packages
> for different countries. Nothing will be well
The firmware on the chip has no more idea where it is than the
driver does. There is no GPS on the chip. The safest place to put
geographically-sensitive settings would be in the firmware on the chip,
but even then, people like me travel all over the world with equipment
anyway.
Your assertion is deeply flawed.
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