[Arm-netbook] Lemote misrepresented wifi is removable

Roman Mamedov rm at romanrm.ru
Sun Jul 29 16:30:51 BST 2012


On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 15:08:03 +0100
lkcl luke <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:

>  hold on - i'll contact Dr Stallman and ask him what happened.  i'm
> sure Dr Stallman would want non-free hardware removed from any machine
> he's using.  i'll ask him what he did, and get back to you.

The Lemote Yeeloong does not have any non-free hardware, it uses a Realtek
RTL8187B wifi controller which operates with fully free drivers and does not
require binary firmware.

-- 
With respect,
Roman

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Stallman had a printer,
with code he could not see.
So he began to tinker,
and set the software free."
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