Conexant HSF modem support in ubuntu - call for testing

Alexandre Strube surak at surak.eti.br
Fri Sep 23 10:06:09 CDT 2005


Em Sex, 2005-09-23 às 15:53 +0100, Matthew Garrett escreveu:

> Cool. I'm having a quick play with it now (Thinkpad with Conexant
> codec attached to the ICH).

Does it work for you? If yes, what's the device id, so I can update the
wiki? If not, what happened? :-)

> > I also would ask the Ubuntu people some assistance regarding the legal
> > issues on it. Is Elmo the guy for it, isn't he?
> With the exception of the firmware, there should be no legal issues - 
> the driver is clearly under a fairly BSD-style license. The stuff under 
> imported/ is non-free, though.

So what can be done for this module get into a ubuntu repo? Can this
firmware be distributed? The license only says that it cannot be
reverse-engineered, but says nothing about redistribution.



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Alexandre Strube <surak at surak.eti.br>




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