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Linux Kernel will not allow closed source USB drivers after ...
For future reference, like the other guy said, you need to install the kernel source, then... copy the driver from floppy/cd-rom to a directory of your choice #cp Examples are ALSA and the NVIDIA closed-source drivers. Instead of having one .DLL file that will work with a bunch of different versions of the OS,

Open Source Nvidia Drivers
... and it was pointed out that Linus allowed certain kinds of drivers, but it seems certain kernel developers are rebelling, and forcing only open source drivers to be used. I don't see anything abut drivers "in the kernel". Where is that? I doubt proprietary vendors would want the drivers "in the kernel" either.

Building a full audio/video system based on debian
... hostap-modules-2.4.27-4-k7 hostap-modules-2.6.8-4-386 Architecture: source i386 Version: 1:0.3.7-1sarge3 Distribution: oldstable-security Urgency: high AP driver for Intersil Prism2/2.5/3 (drivers) hostap-modules-2.4.27-4-k6 - Host AP driver for Intersil Prism2/2.5/3 (drivers) hostap-modules-2.4.27-4-k7

Open Source Drivers [continuation of "Borland, bugs in Oracle..."]
We recently released the MM PACK, a collection of OS/2 software which includes an audio device driver. Theta Band Software would like to announce that we are investigating the development of OS/2 device drivers based on the source code provided by Creative Labs and Aureal. Several issues need to be clarified before

Intel to open-source its graphics drivers
And here's why it's an open source problem. Manufacturers don't provide open documentation for their chips/cards because they consider that proprietary information and they don't want it released to their competitors. If they provide open source drivers they can't keep that information confidential (it's really

Open Letters Ask for Open-Sourced NVIDIA, RIAA/MPAA(et al ...
You wouldn't be thinking about writing an open source Oracle driver would you???? We are a ready and able beta tester!!! Hint, Hint! :-) The reason I am hoping someone else will start this project is I don't know anything about OCI and all the work I am putting into dbExpress Plus doesn't allow me the time to learn

devfs
Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net comp os vms On 09/06/07 12:44, JF Mezei wrote: http://news.com.com/8301-13580_3-9772788-39.html ATI/AMD have decided to release open source drivers for their graphics cards. This, to help the Linux world which really wnats everything to be open sourced. Discern between *want* and

New PCI soundcard
It is either that it is amd64 64 bit compiled, or it could be the binary nvidia drivers it still has some problems with. AMD64 is fine. That's what I'm running here, w/ a vanilla kernel.org kernel (currently 2.6.7), and udev from initial install. However, the closed source NVidia drivers I've read do remain a

[Trivial] Config bugfix - Move MPT fusion into SCSi menu
Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ ===== arch/alpha/config.in 1.29 vs edited ===== --- 1.29/arch/alpha/config.in Wed Aug 28 11:16:05 2002 +++ edited/arch/alpha/config.in Thu Aug 29 08:08:46 2002 @@ -343,9 +343,9 @@ #source drivers/misc/Config.in -source drivers/media/Config.in - source fs/Config.in

Missing Data Source Drivers
Is it appropriate that this driver wire itself directly into serial8250? What if the screen reader is attached to some other sort of uart, or a terminal server, or. + +source "drivers/accessibility/Kconfig" endmenu diff -ur linux-2.6.24.1-orig/drivers/Makefile linux-2.6.24.1-perso/drivers/Makefile

DVI capable graphics cards
Their drivers could be supplied in source code form as well. Since a hardware manufacturer makes money from the hardware sales and not from the drivers, You cannot "open source" a piece of hardware. It would still cost money to purchase the hardware. But by having open source drivers, the company would give

Writing new BDE Data Source Drivers
In fact there are *lots* of incredibly sound reasons for why the Linux kernel should be re-worked to support binary loadable modules that are portable between kernel versions, *even* for Open Source drivers, some of which are: But there is one, which is not solvable - point of Linux is that it allows _you_ to _see_

Linux Kernel will not allow closed source USB drivers after ...
Rob Patch against -test2. diff -ru linux-old/arch/alpha/Kconfig linux-2.6.0-test2/arch/alpha/Kconfig --- linux-old/arch/alpha/Kconfig 2003-07-27 13:06:59.000000000 -0400 +++ linux-2.6.0-test2/arch/alpha/Kconfig 2003-08-01 02:44:13.000000000 -0400 @@ -656,10 +656,6 @@ source "drivers/scsi/Kconfig" -if PCI -source

Video Card, Linux, and You!
We actually think Eric has missed many of the best reasons why closing the source for a driver is economic bad judgement. In fact, open source drivers are a whole lot less likely to break with new kernel releases, partially because of Linus' well-known dislike of closed source drivers. The best reason, though,

Linux Kernel will not allow closed source USB drivers after ...
You could not link closed-source code with kernel code (except of binary-only drivers NOT SINCE it's compatible with GPL, but since Linus said that he will allow this; Since you already allowed link closed-source drivers in kernel you could link UDI drivers as well. Of course UDI layer itself must be GPL'ed (or

Accepted hostap-modules-i386 1:0.3.7-1sarge3 (source i386)
Also it anables better separation of architecture specyfic drivers: do you know of Amiga with EISA ? Does my mips support it ? # grep drivers/net/Config.in arch/*/config.in arch/alpha/config.in: source drivers/net/Config.in arch/arm/config.in: source drivers/net/Config.in arch/i386/config.in: source

Open Source Drivers [continuation of "Borland, bugs in Oracle..."]
ATI want to open their drivers, and we will soon see good drivers for their cards, too. Matrox and 3dfx are also not bad choices for video cards, but with them you're more or less stuck with the same situation as with an nVidia card using an open source drive except for the fact that their open source drivers

Help with building a driver (Newbie but not a moron)
I am hoping for only open source. I know that leaves NVidia out due to the closed drivers. How about ATI? just because it's closed doesn't mean it's unsuitable. for example, Matrox requires 2.4.x, 3dfx is, well too slow, ATI also has closed source drivers see this Xfree driver for their 8500 series:

Open source scanner drivers (was: VueScan 2.6 for Nikon Film Scanners)
ISA is the name of a bus system, ie the way the CPU talks to the other stuff @@ -1514,7 +1514,7 @@ config EISA source "drivers/eisa/Kconfig" config MCA - bool "MCA support" if !(X86_VISWS || X86_VOYAGER) + bool "MCA support" if !(X86_VISWS || X86_VOYAGER || X86_RDC321X) default y if X86_VOYAGER help MicroChannel

Looking for DAQ source drivers
That said, I do agree that Open Source drivers make more sense. If it is ]> that important, one could simply buy inferior hardware that has an open ]> driver, and write Nvidia and let them know. While you may not agree with ]> their decision to keep their drivers closed, there is nothing unethical ]> about it.