Re: [gNewSense-users] Freeness of rt61

[Yoni Rabkin Katzenell]

Karl Goetz <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi all.
> Can someone confirm wether they get this same dmesg output when
> loading the rt61 kernel module?
>
> Jan 23 19:15:53 localhost kernel: [17261763.564000] rt61: module
> license 'unspecified' taints kernel.
>
> if they do, i'll be off to file a bug to kill off my wireless :\
> kk

I get that too:

[17233741.724000] rt61: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.

In rt61-1.1.0-b1/Module/rt_config.h we have:

#define RT2561_IMAGE_FILE_NAME      "/etc/Wireless/RT61STA/rt2561.bin"
#define RT2561S_IMAGE_FILE_NAME     "/etc/Wireless/RT61STA/rt2561s.bin"
#define RT2661_IMAGE_FILE_NAME      "/etc/Wireless/RT61STA/rt2661.bin"

Which references the three blobs of binary firmware shipped with the
otherwise GPL'd driver.

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