[Arm-netbook] CC3000 Wi-Fi for MCU

[Alejandro Mery]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 09:07, lkcl luke <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Alejandro Mery <amery at geeks.cl> wrote:
>
>>> don't atheros make a chip that fits the bill?
>>>
>>> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k
>>>
>>> a friend wrote the "binary" driver for them. i thought the reason it was
>>> binary-only was because it drove the hardware directly and therefore
>>> needed to be binary for regulatory reasons. the driver was then reverse
>>> engineered and then atheros released source.
>>
>> according to The Holy Wikipedia there are a bunch more:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open-source_wireless_drivers
>
>  bizarre - i wonder what the hell happened.  i didn't see _either_ of
> these messages.

easy, you were busy focused on the "hot path" of the thread,
discussing if blackboxing a closed junk firmware means freedom or not
and how to do that (absurd imho) blackboxing less expensive. :p