Re: [gNewSense-users] Re: free netbook lemote yeeloong available

[Sam Geeraerts]

Eus wrote:
> > The wireless has a free driver too.
>
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/rtl8187 says that RTL8187B is 
> supported. But, what about the license in the source code?
> Okay, following the link on the page, I found this page: 
> http://www.datanorth.net/~cuervo/blog/rtl8187b-drivers-and-patches/
> There I downloaded rtl8187b-unmodified-realtek.tar.gz. The license says GPLv2. 
> Great!
> One think left, is there any binary blobs? Hopefully there is none. But, I 
> haven't checked it myself.
I browsed through the modified-dist code. There are some hex tables and 
magic numbers in there, but they don't look too random (except for the 
ones that have to do with encryption, but that's a good thing) so I 
think it's OK.