[Arm-netbook] CC3000 Wi-Fi for MCU

[Simon Kenyon]

On 24/01/2012 05:17, lkcl luke wrote:
>   i've been talking to Dr Richard Stallman and there isn't a single
> modern WIFI module available, that i can find, that does *not* require
> non-free firmware.
>
>   if you or anyone else happens to know of one, such a module is
> seriously seriously needed, almost regardless of cost.

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.

-- 
simon